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That perfume seller on Oxford Street … always claims he’s having a closing down sale … They’re not even the perfumes he was advertising. Scam City s2e8: London, National Geographic 2014
Chemistry was also driven by the booming market in perfumes. Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam: The Empire of Reason, BBC 2009
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5 of course. Marilyn Monroe
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. William Shakespeare, Macbeth V i 56
So perfumed that
The winds were love-sick. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra II ii 198
From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs. ibid. II ii 216
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord. Exodus 30:37
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future. Coco Chanel
A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. Christian Dior
To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior. Rita Rudner
I’m very intelligent. I’m capable of doing everything put to me. I’ve launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I’m living proof blondes are not stupid. Paris Hilton
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by. Lady Gaga
A stream of rich distill’d perfumes. John Milton, Comus l556
Sabean odours from the spicy shore
Of Arabie the blest. John Milton, Paradise Lost IV:162
An amber scent of odorous perfume
Her harbinger. John Milton, Samson Agonistes l720
What you been spraying yourself with – channel 9? The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s 1960 starring Joyce Grenfell & George Cole & Cecil Parker & Eric Barker & Thorley Walters & Irene Handl & Lloyd Lamble & Nicholas Phipps & John le Mesurier & Basil Dignam & Michael Ripper & Raymond Huntley & Liz Frazer & George Benson & Sid James et al, director Frank Launder
Edward Heath: She’s certainly got something about her.
Waldron Smithers: Yes, the whiff of cheap perfume. The Long Walk to Finchley BBC 2008 starring Andrea Riseborough & Samuel West & Rory Kinnear & Philip Jackson & Julia Joyce & Michael Selwood & Geoffrey Palmer et al
Ted: Men don’t wear perfume.
Dougal: Except Father Bigley. Father Ted s2e7: Rock-a-Hula Ted, Channel 4 1996
By 2014 Paris Hilton’s fragrances have grossed more than $2 billion globally. The 2000s: The Decade That Saw It All, National Geographic 2017
I think I can smell her perfume all the way to Cleveland. The Rainmaker 1998 starring Matt Damon & Claire Danes & Jon Voight & Mary Kay Place & Mickey Rourke & Danny DeVito & Dean Stockwell & Virginia Madsen & Randy Travis & Roy Scheider & Red West & Johnny Whitworth et al, director Francis Ford Coppola
I know perfumes. You already stink of death. Gomorrah s2e4: Mea Culpa, Annalisa to robber of gambling monies, Sky Atlantic 2016
I want to smell like a Roman centurion who’s come across an old foe who in battle once hurt him greatly. Killing Eve s3e3: Meetings Have Biscuits, Villanelle commissions perfume, BBC 2020