“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”
“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, first ebook edition, 2014
Attributed quotes
“Sensuality is woman: bring your perfume.”
Original: La sensualità è donna: porta il tuo profumo.
“Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
“Even flowers, to exhale their perfume, must die a little.”
Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
Voces (1943)
“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”
Source: Against Nature
“She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggee scarf”
"Empress's Clothes" on Sitting Targets (1981)
