Christian Louboutin Quotes

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.

Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously be a physical attraction, but scent is something that stays with you. It's something that you remember about a person.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I've done, at the stages I've done it, I've been a little naive, which brought with it a kind of charm. I did Stella a while ago. It's now a bit of a classic.

I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.

I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.

My signature scent is naivete.

How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

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

Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup.