Perfume Quotes

“Perfume for a lady's chamber.”

“The perfumed tincture of the roses.”

“A stream of rich distill'd perfumes.”

“Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.”

“And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”

“So perfumed that
The winds were love-sick.”

“Soft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber.”

“An amber scent of odorous perfume
Her harbinger.”

“Sabean odours from the spicy shore
Of Arabie the blest.”

“A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”

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“And all your courtly civet cats can vent
Perfume to you, to me is excrement.”

“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”

“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss gentleman that's all perfume.”

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“From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs.”

“In virtue, nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!”

“Take your paper, too,
And let me have them very well perfumed,
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to.”

“Hast thou not learn'd me how
To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
That our great king himself doth woo me oft
For my confections?”

“And ever since then, when the clock strikes two,
She walks unbidden from room to room,
And the air is filled that she passes through
With a subtle, sad perfume.
The delicate odor of mignonette,
The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet,
Is all that tells of her story—yet
Could she think of a sweeter way?”