“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
“Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.”
“The horizon all around me breathed out perfume announcing her arrival as the fragrance precedes a flower”
“A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)”
“There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.”
“The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was hers alone, like the smell of a special flower.”