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Whenever I smelled the same perfume on other women, no matter where I was, I was instantly transported back to that feeling of discovery. The sensation of fingertips against old paper, whose surface was powdery and fragile, like the membrane of a moth's wing.
I remember making my own fragrances when I was young.
Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.
Fragrance speaks the loudest on a subliminal level.
The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words.
Perfume is like cocktails without the hangover, like chocolate without the calories, like an affair without tears, like a vacation from which you never have to come back.
A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.
I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.
When he turns to go, the perfumer's
There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.
I never face the day without perfume.
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
I use only essential oils for perfumes.
Make me a fragrance that smells like love
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
Dune by Christian Dior. Luca Turin, who wrote a fragrance guide, calls it 'the bleakest beauty in all perfumery.' Here,
I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.
Beware the perfumed seneschal.
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.
A perfume ought to punch you right on the nose ... I'm not going to sniff for three days to see if it smell or not? it has to have body, and what gives perfume body is the most expensive thing there is.
A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR.
When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.
When the olfactory alphabet, which made them so many words in a precious lexicon, is forgotten, perfumes will be left speechless, inarticulate, illegible.
The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.
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.
I like chocolate. I don't eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.
When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.
Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.
A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.
I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
Those cocksure perfumers reside in abstraction town just next to virtual-ville which is located within counterfeit county in the state of reduction set inside their anything-goes-if-you-can-get-away-with-it world which exists as a mere speck in the nothing-matters-anyway universe.
True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.
Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.
I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.
When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.
I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.
A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.
The mist was like a faint perfume.
This, Mrs Munroe, is the scent of intoxication and desire. The perfume of seduction.
Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.
My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are.
A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.
The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.
There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.
A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.
I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.
I love just going into stores and testing fragrances. The smell of a fragrance is kind of like hearing a song, it makes you feel something that's really unique to you and can be quite exciting.
The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.
This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.
She hated perfume. It was a cover for poor hygiene or for body shame. Clean people never aspired to the floral.
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes ...
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...
It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.
A fragrant Perfume is Love's Living Breath Breathed upon my Soul, the Soul of the beloved, infusing into me the Life Divine.
I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.
Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.
Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.
Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.
The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies!
It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.
A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.
You are never fully dressed without perfume!
Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.
I wear perfume even when I'm alone
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.
I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.
My favorite perfumes are Bois Farine and Chanel Coromandel.
I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.
The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage.
Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.
A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.
I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
There might be symphonies of perfume, Mozarts of musk. Novelists might construct nasal narratives, versifiers sonnets of scent. Sculpture would entail subtleties of shape that only fingers trained through hundreds of millions of years of tactile evolution could discriminate.
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.
The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.
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.
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.