When many people think about beauty, fashion and fragrance, they feel empowered and inspired. After all, when you look (and smell) good, it’s easy to feel good!
Perfume has been touted as the ultimate fashion accessory by everyone from Christian Dior to Marcel Proust, and a person’s signature perfume is often seen as an extension of their personality.
If you absolutely can’t leave the house without a splash of fragrance, these 30 perfume quotes are for you. Our favorites have been made into stunning pieces of art that you can print and hang on your mirror, wardrobe or wherever you get ready in the morning!
Quotes About Perfume and Fashion
Quotes About Perfume and Beauty
Quotes About Love and Attraction
Quotes About a Love of Perfume
Quotes About Perfume and Fashion
- “Perfume is like a new dress, it makes you quite simply marvelous.” – Estée Lauder
- “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.” – Gianni Versace
- “Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.” – Thierry Mugler
- “Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style.” – Christian Dior
- “A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself, a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.” – Paloma Picasso
- “No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.” – Coco Chanel
- “Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.” – Christian Dior
- “Ladies, a man will never remember your handbag, but he will remember your perfume.” – Olivier Creed
Quotes About Perfume and Beauty
- “Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.” – Dolly Parton
- “Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” – W. Somerset Maugham
- “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” – Coco Chanel
- “I always write ‘Magic Potion’ on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical — I make spells in the morning when I put them on.” – Alexa Chung
- “Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.” – Giovanni Ruffini
Quotes About Love and Attraction
- “Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
- “Love is a perfume you cannot pour onto others without getting a few drops on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.” – Patrick Süskind
- “Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!” – Coco Chanel
- “A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.” – Christian Dior
- “What do I wear to bed? Why, Chanel No. 5 of course.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart…and hopefully, someone else’s.” – Elizabeth Taylor
- “Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.” – David Leavitt
Quotes About a Love of Perfume
- “Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It’s a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.” – Sonia Rykiel
- “I like perfume and flowers.” – Donatella Versace
- “One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I’m not wearing make-up, if my hair’s not done, if I’m walking around in pajamas — I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.” – Blake Lively
- “Perfume is a story in odor, sometimes poetry in memory.” – Jean-Claude Ellena
- “The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.” – Mary Gaitskill
- “Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all our tears have run dry, can make us cry again!” – Marcel Proust
- “Perfume is like cocktails without the hangover, like chocolate without the calories, like an affair without tears, like a vacation from which you never have to come back.” – Marian Bendeth
- “Perfume is the art that makes memory speak.” – Francis Kurkdjian
Before you hang these quotes on your mirror, make sure you have plenty of your favorite fragrance on hand. That way you’re able to complete your outfit, complement any beauty routine and feel the way that only perfume can make you feel.
