Le parfum de mille roses ne pla|"t qu'un instant; mais la douleur que cause une seule de leurs e¤  pines dure longtemps apre'  s la piq u" re. The perfume of a thousand roses pleases only for an instant; but the pain caused bya single one of their thorns lasts a long time after the prick.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well himas anotherand then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me 452 would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put myarms around him yes and drew him down tomeso he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses, last words.

If I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

-Van Druten,JohnWilliam
Quoted in Think, Feb1963.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

-Williams,William Carlos
  Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.