Perfumes go beyond being a beautiful crystal object that smells good. Perfume is only a matter of emotions: there isn't one that is better than the other and it is not because an aroma is included in a cheaply priced product that it is bad. Like for art, one can be touched by a canvas without it necessarily bearing the signature of Francis Bacon. Everything is perfumed in our environments, but this accumulation must be relevant. It therefore requires an approach that is more transverse. To take up the challenge of entering the universe of perfumes as one would the world of interior decoration, with a large collection, and to turn perfume into an art of living which touches both the intimate and the universal, this is precisely my idea of luxury.
-- Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, when asked about the relationship between cuisine and perfume and his conception of luxury put the stress on the role of emotion... from "The Scented Salamander"

"And so he would now study perfumes. . . He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergrise that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination; and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences of sweet-smelling roots, and scented pollen-laden flowers, or aromatic balms, and of dark and fragrant woods, of spikenard that sickens, of hovenia that makes men mad, and of aloes that are said to be able to expel melancholy from the soul."
-- Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

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I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume.~Jacques Guerlain

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.~John Steinbeck

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior'.~Rita Rudner


A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.~Coco Chanel

See where she comes, and smell how all the street,
Breathes vineyards and pomegranates: oh, how sweet!
As a fired altar is each stone,
Perspiring pounded cinnamon.
The phoenix-nest,
Built up of odours, burneth in her breast.
Who therein would not consume
His soul to ash-heaps in that rich perfume,
~Robert Herrick, A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and His Lady (l. 21-28)

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It’s a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.
~Sonia Rykiel

Perfume is a delicate balance between irrational, hedonistic and technical elements.
~François Demachy

It is a perfume designed to be worn on a rainy Tuesday morning, standing in a crowded suburban train full of people on their way to work, each nursing a sleepy dream of early retirement while avoiding the others' glances.
~Luca Turin, Perfumes: The Guide, Page 44

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine

"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."

Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948) French "novelist, polemical writer"
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."

"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
Coco Chanel