Collected Quotes #1

"Smell is the primordial sense,
more powerful, more primitive,
more intimately tied to our memories
and emotions than any other."

— Donna Karan

"A perfume needs to attract the eye
as much as the nose."

— Francois Coty

"What remains of a woman when she is in the dark?
When she has undressed, when we can no longer see her
make-up, her wonderful hair, her beautiful eyes,
when she's taken off her jewelry, what is left?
Only her charming voice and her perfume."

— Jean-Paul Guerlain

"A perfume is more than an extract,
it is a presence in abstraction.
A perfume, for me, is a mystique."

— Giorgio Armani