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Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." ~ Jacques Guerlain — Kristina Miranda

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference. — Zora Neale Hurston

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare. — George MacDonald

She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent. — Jill Mansell

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume. — Blake Lively

There is no reason for verbosity in the olfactory world. Less is more. — Adria J. Cimino

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is sweet as perfume and incense. - Proverbs 27:9 — Gary Chapman

Go then, a starveling girl
With no perfume or pearls,
Only your nudity
O my beauty! — Charles Baudelaire

A woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud. — Fernand Dumont

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. — David Leavitt

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

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory — Jean-Claude Ellena

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. — Sigrid Undset

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul. — Juliette Adam

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron

You are never fully dressed without perfume! — C. JoyBell C.

Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you. — Jean Patou

Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume! — C. JoyBell C.

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

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume, — George R R Martin

Flowers of sin, like some black sun,
Bloom in my dreams
Their perfume-sodden fragrance
Spreading through each heartbeat. — Shiv Kumar Batalvi

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart. — Emanuel Ungaro

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress. — Christian Dior

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work. — Warren Farrell

Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband — Idries Shah

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets! — Tom Robbins

I never face the day without perfume. — Elizabeth Taylor

I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents. — Azzedine Alaia

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me. — Patti Davis

Don't waste your precious time on people who do not appreciate your value. Learn to use your perfume on the pigs when they also learn to bath. — Israelmore Ayivor

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry. — Karina Lombard

Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume. — Sarah Addison Allen

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing. — Plautus

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another. — Charles Baudelaire

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. — Renee Vivien

The perfume of power. The musk of money? He frowned. Well, no, maybe not that one. — Ian C. Esslemont

It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour. — Kathleen Tessaro

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense. — L'Wren Scott

Ould smell the peppery-sweet perfume of pinks — Kate Atkinson

The snow wears moonlight like perfume. — Emily Murdoch

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it. — Paloma Picasso

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141) — Prem Prakash

Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye. — Holly Black

Don't save your good wine/perfume/cutlery for a special moment. That moment is already here. — Kendall Talbot

Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees! — Anne Raver

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume ... got to bed on my own sheets ... have my own food products. I live on me. — Pierre Cardin

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory. — John Slattery

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it. — David Fincher

scent of his perfume filled the little room. He waved the poet to a chair as slaves came in bearing wine — Bruce MacBain

A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR. — Paco Rabanne

Perfume is the key to our memories — Kate Lord Brown

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas. — Louise Penny

Fragrance speaks the loudest on a subliminal level. — Marian Bendeth

Young foliage sweet bronze.
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume. — Tessa Rumsey

My friends think it's weird that I spray perfume on my feet. — Chantal Sutherland

To smell, though well, is to stink. — Michel De Montaigne

Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha

As she hangs out the window her husband walks below, but her husband hadn't memorized her shadow and she didn't know how to wear perfume. — Karen Finley

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done. — Delphine Arnault

What if they wanted to dump the perfume in — Marcus Emerson

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. — Frank Harris

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume. — Charles Spurgeon

Had to run out of a cinema because the smell of the woman's perfume sitting next to me (Opium) combined with her popcorn made me retch. — Liane Moriarty

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original? — Christopher Michael Cillizza

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. — John Dewey

That's what my perfume would smell like, margarita and vodka. — Chelsea Handler

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. — Lauren Graham

I don't really wear perfume. I use Victoria's Secret sometimes. They have this Coconut Passion spray. But fragrances can give me a bit of a headache. — Kylie Jenner

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand. — Jonathan Carroll

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

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future. — Coco Chanel

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. — Heinrich Heine

Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do. — Mitch Albom

Smell is a word, perfume is literature. — Jean-Claude Ellena

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower. — Evan Esar

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 each note. — Serge Lutens

She hated perfume. It was a cover for poor hygiene or for body shame. Clean people never aspired to the floral. — Lauren Groff

Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, — Jane Hirshfield

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone. — Salma Hayek

Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else.
Oh, right ... orgasms. — J.R. Ward

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk. — Sonia Rykiel

A perfume is a perfume because of the fragrance it produces — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. — Dolly Parton

Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom. — Phoebe Tonkin

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer. — Robert Orben

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed. — Coco Chanel

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow — Shimon Peres

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me. — Ray Bradbury

You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh. — Ilona Andrews

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

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent. — Marilyn Monroe

The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined a more perfect perfume? — Kristen Callihan

The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you. — Enock Maregesi

It's the smell of life, Mother." Emily drew deep. "Gasoline, horses, the sweat of men, the perfume of women. — Rachel Hauck

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books. — Beth Cato

Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. JOHN 12:3 — Anne Graham Lotz

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark. — Janet Fitch