Collected Quotes #3

"Perfume is a promise in a bottle."
— Sophia Grosjman

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

"A perfume is like a cat burglar in your brain;
it has the key with which to pick the lock
and unleash your memories."
— Roja Dove

"To create a perfume, you have to be a servant
of the unconcious. Each idea evolves and transforms,
but they should be a surprise with each note."
— Serge Lutens

"I think allure is something around you,
like a perfume or like a scent.
It's like a memory... it pervades."
— Diana Vreeland

Collected Quotes #2

"A fragrance is like a signature,
so that even after a woman leaves the room,
her fragrance should reveal she's been there."
— Oscar De La Renta

"A fragrance always combines
feminity and sensuality."
— Gianfranco Ferre

"A rose is a rose,
but a great perfume creates emotion."
— Michael Edwards

"A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional, or physical peace
and stimulate healing and wellness."
— Donna Karan

"Perfume is an art form, in the same genre as music and painting.
It requires talent, expertise, and most of all passion."
— Clive Christian

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