Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.
The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.
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.
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume.
The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.
I wear perfume even when I’m alone
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.
Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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.
I like perfume and flowers.
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
