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• A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Writing, Color

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

  Claudia Roden

  Coffee, Food, Fleeting

  "In the drink" by Victoria Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2004.

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• If you can't smell the fragrance
  don't come into the garden of Love.
  if you are unwilling to undress
  don't enter into the stream of
  Truth. Stay where you are, don't
  come our way

  Rumi

  Garden, Smell, Way

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• As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Untamed, Body, Heat

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.44, Penguin UK

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• A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Icons

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• As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Flower, Moving

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• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

  Gertrude Stein

  France, Literature, Oneself

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• A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Brother, Writing, Light

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Eye, Joy

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• It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Waiting Around, Long, People

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• Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Flower, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

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• Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vegetables, Offending, Spirit

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• I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  People, Able, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.

  Dree Hemingway

  Memories, Men, Personality

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• The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Lying, Expression, Order

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• At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.

  Prem Prakash

  Looks, World, Incense

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• Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

  Christian Dior

  Memories, Long, Childhood

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• I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

  Clive Owen

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

  "Milan Party Report: New Masculinity, Clive Owen-Approved" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.

  Jared Leto

  New York, Powerful, Weekend

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Life, Nature, Spring

  Neltje Blanchan (1901). “Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Nature's Garden ..”

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• The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

  Aerin Lauder

  Interesting, Feelings, Scent

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• For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

  Francis Kurkdjian

  Luxury, Excellence, Quality

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• To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Essence, Games

  Meher Baba (2005). “Infinite Intelligence”

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• Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Signatures, Dresses

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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