I wear fragrance when I feel that just makeup is not enough. I'm not someone who uses it daily, but when I do, I feel so proud that I remembered and almost like I treated myself because I work really hard.
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
I just love good smells.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me.
There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
I don't really use fragrance. I use essential oils, but not necessarily every day.
Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.
I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Even for digestion, I boil aijwain, jeera, ginger and lemon in water and drink it all day.
Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.
My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.
