Perfume Quotes - Page 7

• The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Health, Men, Roots

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• I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Wife, Charm

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Powerful, Character, People

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• My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Fall, Historical, Quality

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• He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

  Patrick Süskind

  Principles, Scent, Made

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• Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

  Christian Dior

  Individuality, Looks, Lasts

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• As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.

  David Niven

  Beautiful, Men, Color

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• I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Clothes, Dresses, Bottles

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• Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.

  Blaize Clement

  Smell, Grease, Males

  Blaize Clement (2007). “Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter: The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.78, Macmillan

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• My friends think its weird that I spray perfume on my feet.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Thinking, Feet, My Friends

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• I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Smell, Want

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Orchids

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• 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

  Lines, Clothings

  "Gloria Estefan pens a pup of a book". www.today.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

  Richard Fleischer

  Sex, Desire, Crime

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vegetables, Offending, Spirit

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• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

  Geneen Roth

  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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• Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Rain, Simple

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• I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.

  Colleen Houck

  Spring, Flower, Essence

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• Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Flower, Pretty Woman

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.117

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• "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

  Coco Chanel

  Want, Young, Should

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• Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rain, Sweaters, Grace

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• It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Egypt, Dust

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• I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

  Hafez

  Flower, Writing, Heart

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• A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.

  Groucho Marx

  Women, Hair, Oil

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