Quotes about perfume
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“[Her] perfume was delicate and at the same time with the hint of an odor like a tiger in ambush.”

Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer

Из художественных произведений

“That night’s selection was called Windblown Grass. It didn’t exactly smell like grass to Holden, but it was nice. Just a hint of earthiness to it. Holden had a suspicion that all perfumes were named randomly, anyway.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 53 (p. 579)

Grass, Night

“Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.”

Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist

Source: The Economist, 1st October 2011, p. 89

Whore

“And I have known the arms already, known them all —
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!]
It is perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

Light, Lie, Making love

“Perfume is a good example of a product gone all wrong. When I was a child, it was a semi-exotic thing and it was called something stupid like "Fleur de Fleur" and you would give it to your mother or aunty at Christmas and it was advertised by some dopey looking woman in a field of sunflowers and she looked like she'd been hit by a tractor because she was going *flails with arms*. She couldn’t just get over how nice she smelled. Now, because we’re so jaded, we’ve consumed so much, our attention can only be grabbed in a violent way. So it’s always advertised by these constipated, exo-keletal bitches who are sneering at you and it’s called something horrible like "Homicide"! "Dysentery!"”

Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian

"Urban Dysentery" for boys and girls!

On consumerism.
What It Is (2009)

Way, Christmas, Bitch, Stupidity

“She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggee scarf”

Peter Hammill (1948) British musician

"Empress's Clothes" on Sitting Targets (1981)

“And I have known the arms already, known them all —
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair! ]
It is perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

Light, Lie, Making love

“Those who discover that reality of their inmost Being enjoy a sense of peace, love, and wisdom as its natural perfume. They experience their essential nature as true freedom.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Peace, Freedom, Nature, Reality

“Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2016, La conscience de l’Absolu, Hozhoni, 60, 978-2-37241-020-5]
Spiritual life, Sense of the sacred

God, Love

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!”

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) French writer

Source: Cyrano de Bergerac

Perfection, Nature, Love, Men

“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”

Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, first ebook edition, 2014
Attributed quotes

Women

“Sensuality is woman: bring your perfume.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La sensualità è donna: porta il tuo profumo.

“And after doing all they do they rise from their bed, they bathe, powder and perfume their persons, they dress, and gradually return to being what they are not.”

Julio Cortázar book Un tal Lucas

Un tal Lucas (1979)
Original: (es) 'AMOR 77'
Y después de hacer todo lo que hacen, se levantan, se bañan, se entalcan, se perfuman, se peinan, se visten, y así progresivamente van volviendo a ser lo que no son.

Personality

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Quotes about perfume
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