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Scented Quote of the Day Archive
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"The choice of a perfume has as much to do with the regional culture as with one's preferences. It is even much more controlled by existing social codes than by desires believed to be one's own." Note: Pierre Bourdon is the nose behind Davidoff Cool Water, Dior Dolce Vita, and Malle Iris Poudre, among others. Photo is from Editions de Parfums
 "I've learned, that when you turn out the lights, you don't see a woman's dress, or her jewels, or the hairstyle she's worked so hard to achieve. You smell her scent, which is the most intense form of memory. And my secret is that love has been related to every fragrance I've created. As my grandfather told me when I was 16, we should always create perfumes for the women whom we love."
Given the question, "what is your philosophical recipe for happiness?" Serge Lutens answers:
One day I heard a sentence -- was it in a movie? -- that summarizes my philosophy pretty well: "When the gods want to punish you, they grant all your wishes." Very often, when we wish for something, what we get is something else. And it is that other thing that, in my opinion, is the most interesting. This applies to the making of a perfume. From the time the essences are arranged to reach a desired effect to the time when a result is actually achieved by their association, there is a world of difference. At that point in time I usually say to myself, "Thank God, my wish was not granted!" (Translated from the French by Mimi Froufrou) Image source: Aus Liebe zum Duft
 "Fastidious women are as delicately refined in their selection of sweet odours as in every other personal appointment. A high-bred woman does not associate herself with musk or patchouli. The shadow of the clear pungent lavender may precede her but the most sensitive, refined women shrink intuitively from the odours that attract the parvenu. Some of us, in these days of musk and suffocating rose, have frequently wished the promiscuous use of these powerful odours might be restricted." Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1849-1903)
"I advise women to switch perfumes. I find sad the type of woman who uses the same perfume all of her life, who, maybe because of her insecurities or lack of personality or taste does not try out other, different fragrances. The woman who appreciates perfume is the one who experiments, alternates, whose scent changes."
in Etiqueta Negra, August 20, 2002. (translated from the Spanish by Marie-Hélène Wagner.)
Ode to Deodorant Here's an Ode, ah, to deodorant
It's my thing, ah it's my favourite hygiene
It keeps me through the day
Another ode, ah to deodorant
It's my thing, ah it's my favourite hygiene
It's the confidence I need
It's medicine for the soul
It's medicine for the mind
It picks me up and makes me whole
It makes me feel alright
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Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon,
Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume;
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan,
Wi' the burn stealing under the lang, yellow broom.
Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers
Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk, lowly, unseen;
For there, lightly tripping, among the wild flowers,
A-list'ning the linnet, aft wanders my Jean.
Tho' rich is the breeze in their gay, sunny valleys,
And cauld Caledonia's blast on the wave;
Their sweet-scented woodlands that skirt the proud palace,
What are they?-the haunt of the Tyrant and Slave.
The Slave's spicy forests, and gold-bubbling fountains,
The brave Caledonian views wi' disdain;
He wanders as free as the winds of his mountains,
Save Love's willing fetters-the chains of his Jean. Their groves o' sweet myrtle - 1795
"Smells are surer than sounds or sights to make your heartstrings crack"
"'You shall not escape two sermons', he exclaimed. This morning you had the curé's, tonight you shall have the grandfather's. Listen to me; I am going to give you a piece of advice: Adore one another. I don't make undue flourishes. I go right to the point, be happy. The only sages in creation are the turtledoves. The philosophers say: Moderate your joys. I say; Give them full rein. Be enamored like devils. Be rabid. The philosophers talk nonsense. I would like to cram their philosophy back down their throats. Can there be too many perfumes, too many open rosebuds, too many nightingales singing, too many green leaves, too many dawns in life? Can you love each other too much? Can you please each other too much?"
Les misérables
Translation by Lee Fahnestock and Norman Mac Afee.
"To imagine a perfume is to create an illusion. I try to achieve the maximum of effects with the minimum of ingredients." Le blanc seing by Magritte. Photo is from www.clarku.edu.
"Atlas cedar smells of churned wet clay, but also of warm human skin, of bodies after lovemaking. I like putting something human into a perfume. Nowadays, a lot of them smell clean, as if they were at war with the smells around us." Terre d'Hermès: Top: Grapefruit and orange*. Heart: Gunflint, flint, peppers, pink peppercorn, geranium leaves and patchouli. Base: Atlas cedar, vetiver and gum benjamin. *Note: There's no "real" orange in the top note - Ellena had a note created which had no hint of something edible, it was just pure sparkle. Source: Cosmetics
"Perfume is nothing other than touch felt from a distance"
"Retro perfumes put us back in touch with who we are at the deepest level, and for this reason they are of great value. (...) In the face of contemporary uniformity, they offer the imagination of a fragrance, their tenacity upon the skin, their capacity to surprise, their evolving notes...they place a bet on personality"
April 28, 2006
The First Jasmines Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!
I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands
with these jasmines, these white jasmines. I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth;
I have heard the liquid murmur of the river
through the darkness of midnight;
Autumn sunsets have come to me at the bend of the road
in the lonely waste, like a bride raising her veil
to accept her lover.
Yet my memory is still sweet with the first white jasmines
that I held in my hands when I was a child. Many a glad day has come in my life,
and I have laughed with merrymakers on festival nights. On grey mornings of rain
I have crooned many an idle song. I have worn round my neck the evening wreath of
BAKULAS woven by the hand of love. Yet my heart is sweet with the memory of the first fresh jasmines
that filled my hands when I was a child. The Crescent Moon Note: The reference here is to jasmine sambac which is prevalent in India.
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer.
To a Friend who Sent some Roses
Picture is from huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu
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