Scented Quote of the Day Archives

In an article signed by French perfume journalist Maïté Turonnet and published in Libération Next dating from June 4th, 2011, Serge Lutens goes back to his ideas on the overflow of aromas taking place in our industrialized societies......

Madeleine Béjart dans le rôle de Madelon  MascarilleAttachez un peu sur ces gants la réflexion de votre odorat.MadelonIls sentent terriblement bons... ...

We're memorializing Elizabeth Taylor through fragrance. Here is a quote we found which reveals how much of a leading engine Liz Taylor was in shaping the celebrity-fragrance market thanks to her charisma and unique pull. In 1991, when White Diamonds...

 Gérard Margeon is the head sommelier to Alain Ducasse restaurants and supervises the wine cellars of an international group regrouping some 20 restaurants among which is the Louis XV in Monaco which alone possesses some 500 000 wine bottles. In...

"Wait. Hm. Hm. Yes. That's her perfume. Why she waved her hand. I leave you this to think of me when I'm far away on the pillow. What is it? Heliotrope? No. Hyacinth? Hm. Roses, I think......

The prose of Marcel Proust is unconventionally long and sinuous with a syntax seemingly almost always on the verge of going tumbling down over the edge of a cliff. You wait for it to fall but instead it goes on....

I loved the following quote from French writer Paul Morand about Gabrielle Chanel of which he suddenly feels inspired to draw an imaginary olfactive portrait like an electric shortcut taken through time and memory. When I read the passage, it...

In 1992, Thierry Mugler expressed himself around the launch of Angel, affirming the artistry of his approach to fragrance which he contrasted with the American one which he saw as marketing-driven......

What smells good does not necessarily taste good when it comes to perfume. Rapper Dmx recalls his abusive mother and how as a kid he was driven to drink her perfume out of sheer hunger......

"Yellow roses she bought with her money like Empire satin brocade, and white lilacs and pink tulips like moulded confectioner's frosting and deep-red roses like a Villon poem, black and velvety as an insect wing, cold blue hydrangeas clean as...

In the midst of the 1980s there were apparently and perhaps not surprisingly reactions to the larger trend of wearing Big Fragrances which were vocal enough to reach the ears of fashion editor Diana Vreeland. If Giorgio, Diva, Mon Parfum...

Ulysse remet Chryséis à son père, Claude LorrainIthakaAs you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon--don't be afraid of them: you'll never find things like...

A Noble Lady of Venice by Lord Frederick Leighton, ca. 1865, Leighton House Museum and Gallery"...I shall venture to offer to ladies a few words of advice on the choice of their perfumes and cosmetics. I feel that this is...

Image via Wikipedia Here is an excerpt from Ode to the Nightingale by John Keats which was written in the month of May 1819. In it, as the poet imagines his vision dimming with the passing of daylight, his sense...