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April 21, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Ramakrishna:

"We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence."

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April 15, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Emile Zola:

"In the muggy air intermittently lingered a more acute odor, it was coming from a few sprigs of dried patchouli broken into tiny pieces at the bottom of a glass."

Nana

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April 14, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Gustave Flaubert:

"For him, there was never enough cold cream applied on her skin, never enough patchouli scenting her handkerchiefs."

Madame Bovary

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March 28, 2006

Scented Quote if the day, from the Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti:

"(...) Noble sirs, how does the Tathagata Sugandhakuta teach his Dharma?

They replied the Tathagata does not teach the Dharma by means of sound and language. He disciplines the bodhisattvas only by means of perfumes. At the foot of each perfume-tree sits a bodhisattva and the trees emit perfumes like this one. From the moment they smell that perfume, the boddhisattvas attain the concentration called "the source of all bodhisattvas-virtues. From the moment they attain that concentration all the bodhisattvas-virtues are produced in them."

The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman

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March 24, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Lyn Harris:

"Women should have a wardrobe of scents that they change. It's not about putting on a pretty smell that you really like. You need to think specifically about what you want, and how you want to feel - just as you do with your clothes. The French and Italians do that, yet I think we are quite scared about it. It's so much part of our outfit."

Painting by Natalie Armstrong

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March 23, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Bart Yates:

"I've never wanted a different mother. I just want my mother to be different.

Get in line, right?

(...)

But she smells great.

Know the way a person smells when they've been outside on a chilly fall day? That's how Mom smells all the time. Like rain, and wind, and leaf mold, and a faint hint of wood smoke. Hardly the way a woman is supposed to smell, but trust me: if the Glad Air Fresheners people could bottle her scent, you'd have her hanging in your car and your bathroom and your kitchen.

Sorry, I didn't mean to get all oedipal on you.

Anyway."

Leave Myself Behind

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March 22, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, Anonymous:

"Real musk is the one that gives off its perfume and not the one which is boasted by the druggist."

Persian proverb

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March 19, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Thomas Pynchon:

"...certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphta winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind curves and out the lonely spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of maturing rust, developing through those emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to bring events to absolute Zero..."

Gravity's Rainbow

Painting by David Caspar Friedrich, from otosell

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March 18, 2006

Scented Quote of the Day, from Guy Laroche:

"My earliest perfume memory: probably that of my mother when she would come to kiss me good night. A silky blend of fabrics and scents from a perfume whose name I have forgotten. It does not matter, really; I remember that it was mauve, tender, powdered with trails of white flowers. I would fall asleep in its softness while it floated around my sleep like a mysterious guardian. Sometimes, it happens that I encounter by chance women on a street or in an elevator who are wearing it, at that very moment all the images come back, rising up from these fragile sillages."

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