Perfume

Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and/or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces a pleasant scent.

Quotes

 * In virtue, nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 17.


 * And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.
 * Colley Cibber, Richard III (Altered) (1700), Act V, scene 3, line 44.


 * I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss gentleman that's all perfume.
 * William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 283.


 * Soft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber.
 * Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes (1578), Third Day, Part I.


 * A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
 * Christian Dior, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.


 * 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?
 * Bret Harte, Newport Legend. Quoted by Augustus Thomas in The Witching Hour; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 593-94.


 * Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
 * George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).


 * A stream of rich distill'd perfumes.
 * John Milton, Comus (1634), 556.


 * Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arabie the blest.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 162.


 * An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger.
 * John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 720.


 * And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
 * Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717), Canto I, line 134.


 * And all your courtly civet cats can vent Perfume to you, to me is excrement.
 * Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II, line 188; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 593-94.


 * So perfumed that The winds were love-sick.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 198.


 * From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 216.


 * 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?
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act I, scene 5, line 12.


 * The perfumed tincture of the roses.
 * William Shakespeare, Sonnet LIV (c. 1590-1595).


 * Take your paper, too, And let me have them very well perfumed, For she is sweeter than perfume itself To whom they go to.
 * William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 151.


 * Perfume for a lady's chamber.
 * William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 225.