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 hayGives 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 shoreOf Arabie the blest. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 162. An amber scent of odorous perfumeHer 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 ventPerfume 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 thatThe winds were love-sick. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 198. From the bargeA strange invisible perfume hits the senseOf the adjacent wharfs. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 2, line 216. Hast thou not learn'd me howTo make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, soThat our great king himself doth woo me oftFor 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 itselfTo 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. External links perfume Category:Themes