Perfume Quotes

342 Perfume quotes by 274 unique authors

Perfume is magic. It’s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We… — M.J. Rose
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with… — Serge Lutens
Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at… — Nino Cerruti
I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other. — Gloria Estefan
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you… — Rajneesh
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real… — Epicurus
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed… — Walt Whitman
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love… — Zhuangzi
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? — Unknown Author
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. — Socrates
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha
Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style. — Thierry Mugler
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. — Renee Vivien
A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart. — Emanuel Ungaro
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of… — Issey Miyake
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their… — Paul Cezanne
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer… — Henry Ward Beecher
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of… — M.F.K. Fisher
There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume.… — Tom Robbins
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk. — Jacqueline du Pre

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