PERFUME

Related Subjects: Nose, Odor

1. Gentle and noble are their tempers framed,
   That can be quickened with perfumes and sounds.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Ovid's Banquet of Sense
   

2. I cannot talk with civet in the room,
   A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume;
   The sight's enough—no need to smell a beau.—COWPER, Conversation
   

3. The sweetest essences are always confined in the smallest glasses.—DRYDEN, Essays
   

4. He does not smell well who always has a nice scent upon him.—MARTIAL, Epigrams
   

5. A stream of rich distill'd perfumes.—MILTON, Comus
   

6. They that smell least, smell best.—Proverb
   

7. Look not for musk in a dog-kennel.—Proverb
   

8. A strange invisible perfume hits the sense.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

9. So perfumed that The winds were love-sick.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

10. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

11. Let me have them very well perfumed;
    For she is sweeter than perfume itself
    To whom they go to.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

12. Perfume for a lady's chamber.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
    

13. The perfumed tincture of the roses.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets