Scented Quote of the Day Archives

 Here is a beautiful and interesting quote from Chanel in-house perfumer Jacques Polge about what it takes to be a nose (translation after the jump):"Je crois qu'il faut une certaine forme de sensibilité, une espèce d'attirance pour un certain...

"Olfaction is a kind of taste experienced at a distance. Others are forced, willy-nilly, to participate in this pleasure. And this is why, being in contradiction with freedom, olfaction is less social than taste, where among many dishes or...

Pacifica started their business in 1995 as a candle-making company and later branched out into beauty care. Their scented body butters are very good as we have had already the opportunity to point out, both from the vantage points...

Chanel No. 5 by Andy Warhol, 1985  "La vérité en parfum n’existe pas, sauf à être la passagère coïncidence d’une senteur avec notre âme, ce qui fait bien des vérités pour tout autant d’âmes."~  "Truth in perfume does not exist,...

A fire in the fireplace is an olfactory symphony [...] (follows a long beautiful poetic evocation of all the smells that emanate from the fragrant woods and plants in the fireplace and mingle about in the room). These smells...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau in an Armenian costume, Geneva "Les odeurs par elles-mêmes sont des sensations faibles ; elles ébranlent plus l'imagination que le sens, et n'affectent pas tant par ce qu'elles donnent que par ce qu'elles font attendre. Cela supposé,...

THANKSGIVING "Have you cut the wheat in the blowing fields, The barley, the oats, and the rye, The golden corn and the pearly rice? For the winter days are nigh." "We have reaped them all from shore to shore,...

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo, 1445, The Met  If you thought one could not wax lyrical after knowing one was smelling a fabricated perfume molecule, think again. Perfumer Arcadi Boix Camps from...

Mademoiselle de Camargo by Nicolas Lancret (1730)   "Le parfum c'est le complément indispensable de la personnalité féminine, c'est le finishing touch d'une robe, c'est la rose dont Lancret signait ses toiles". ~ "Perfume is the indispensable complement to the feminine personality;...

About the state of the perfume industry,  “We are more and more guilty of throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing if it sticks [quoting her friend William Lauder]. Everyone talks about it, everyone writes about it, but every year...

You heard about Sean John's challenge to his female contenders in the arena of celebrity perfumes (also see video)? Here's the answer of the butterfly to the big bad wolf,........

 "Un bon parfum, c'est celui que l'on a envie de sentir encore et encore" ~  "A good perfume is one that one wants to smell over and over again"  (From Le guide du parfum by Rebecca Veuillet-Gallot) (Photo from frenzied seller )...

Duke women 1946  Minton writes bout Gallicized perfume names in America as of 1946 (a method applied sometimes quite erratically if you read the rest of Minton's article, which is at times hilarious, especially when he gives long lists of...