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• No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

  Lorrie Moore

  Boots, Matter, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

  Gail Carriger

  Fighting, Important, Ruffles

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• Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but...God IS poetry.

  Vasant Lad

  Flower, Love Is, Compassion

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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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• 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. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I have a very keen sense of smell and always associate certain people and places with particular fragrances. For me, nothing is more likely to set a mood than certain scents. I find I vary the perfume I use depending on the climate and the time of day. However a few great perfumes seem to work for most occasions.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Smell, People, Scent

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• Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Air

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

  Robert Orben

  Valentine, Divorce, Cards

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• You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Scent, Should

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• He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.” “Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ” “Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.

  James Patterson

  Sexy, Sweat, Smell

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.297, Random House

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• This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.

  Patrick Süskind

  Smell, Creating, World

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• Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

  Cate Blanchett

  Memories, Powerful, Emotional

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• The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

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• I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Smell, Female

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• Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
  Stood up in balmy air,
  Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
  And breathed a perfume rare.

  George MacDonald

  Light, Air, Doors

  George MacDonald (1867). “The Disciple, and Other Poems”, p.81

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• When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Flower, Hands, Childhood

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• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Children, Party

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• After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

  Karel Capek

  Flower, Butterfly, Dark

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that.

  Chris D'Elia

  Smell, Bats, Needs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweet, Book, Character

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