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.