Scented Quote of the Day Archives

"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,...

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...

  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...

  "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...

  "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...

"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...

 The First Jasmines Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!I seem to remember the first day when I filled my handswith these jasmines, these white jasmines. I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth;I have heard the liquid...

I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threwIts sweets upon the summer.To a Friend who Sent some Roses Picture is from huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu...

"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."Image is from www.bethecause.org...

"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...

"It was for him that she would file her nails with the care of a chaser and that there was never enough cold cream on her skin, or patchouli scenting her handkerchiefs. She would weigh herself down with bracelets,...

"(...) 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......