// JavaScript Document function gallerySwap(state,id) { var swapTo = state == "on" ? "off" : "on"; //document.getElementById(id).src = "images/" + id + swapTo + ".jpg"; if (swapTo == "on"){ document.getElementById("galimg").style.backgroundImage = "url(images/gallery/pic" + id + ".jpg)"; document.getElementById(id).src = "images/gallery/butt" + id + swapTo + ".jpg"; } else { document.getElementById("galimg").style.backgroundImage = "url(images/gallery/pic0.jpg)"; document.getElementById(id).src = "images/gallery/butt" + id + swapTo + ".jpg"; } } //setInterval ( "headerswap()", 100000 ); function headerswap( ) { //alert ("Swap!"); //document.getElementById("uphead").src = "images/site/header2.png"; //document.getElementById("lowhead").src = "images/site/titlespace2.jpg"; setTimeout("changeback()", 6000); $("#uphead, #lowhead").fadeOut(1500); } function changeback( ) { //alert ("Swap!"); //document.getElementById("uphead").src = "images/site/header.png"; //document.getElementById("lowhead").src = "images/site/titlespace.jpg"; setTimeout("headerswap()", 6000); $("#uphead, #lowhead").fadeIn(1500); } //For the quotes: function get_random() { var ranNum= Math.floor(Math.random()*perfumequotes.length); return ranNum; } function getaQuote() { var whichQuote=get_random(); document.getElementById("quotes").innerHTML = perfumequotes[whichQuote]; //alert(perfumequotes[whichQuote]); } var perfumequotes = new Array("\"I send thee this sweet perfume a fragrance to the fragrant, as one would offer wine to the god of wine\"

- Anonymous", "\"Perfume is nothing other than touch felt from a distance\"

- Unknown", "\" Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. \"

- An eight-year-old", "\" Perfumery attracts people with desire but no skill; hence, those than can, create; those that can’t, steal.\"

- Anonymous", "\" The fire is laid, the fire shines;
The incense is laid on the fire, the incense shines.
Your perfume comes to me, O Incense\;
May my perfume come to you, O Incense.
Your perfume comes to me, you gods;
May my perfume come to you, you gods.\"

- Opening of the Mouth ceremony, Utterances from the Pyramid Texts, Utt. 269 A Censing Prayer (probably 2000BC-1300BC)", "\"I anoint myself everyday with oil, burn perfumes and use cosmetics that make me worthier of worshipping thee.\"

- Said in prayer to the god Marduk by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II who reigned circa 605 BC-562 BC (Also known as Nebuchadrezzar II)", "\"This will be the manner of the Kings... he will take your daughters for perfumers...\"

- unkown","\"Oil and perfume bring joy to the heart.\"

- unkown", "\" Anthony gave Cleopatra the palm-grove at Jericho in which balsam is produced.\"

- Flavius Josephus, (AD 37 – cca. AD 100), Jewish historian, from \“The Jewish War\” (1:361)", "\" Now here is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number of palm trees besides the balsam tree, whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears.\"

Flavius Josephus (AD 37 – cca. AD 100), Jewish historian, from \“The Wars of the Jews\” ", "\"Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move. And with her breath she did perfume the air. Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her. \"

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Taming of the Shrew", "\"And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks \"

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnet 130", "\"Were not summer's distillations left
A liquid prisoner, pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect of beauty was bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was;
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
\"

– William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnet 5", "\"Hast thou not learn'd me how
To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
That our great king himself doth woo me oft
For my confections? \"

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Cymbeline (Queen, wife to Cymbeline at I, v)", "\"Sabean odours from the spicy shore
Of Arabic the blest. \"

- John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 162)", "\"A stream of rich distill'd perfumes. \"

- John Milton (1608-1674), Comus (556)", "\" An amber scent of odorous perfume
Her harbinger.\"

- John Milton (1608-1674), from Samson Agonistes (l. 719,720)", "\"Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. \"

- Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) ", "\"I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer. \"

- John Keats (1795-1821), poet, from To a Friend who Sent me Some Roses", "\"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.\"

- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), The Harz Journey", "\"Can there be too many perfumes, too many open rosebuds, too many nightingales singing, too many green leaves, too many dawns in life? Can you love each other too much? Can you please each other too much? \"

- Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist", "\"The season is at hand when swaying on its stem
Every flower exhales perfume like a censer;
Sounds and perfumes turn in the evening air; \"

- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony)", "\"For him, there was never enough cold cream applied on her skin, never enough patchouli scenting her handkerchiefs. \"

- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), from the novel, “Madame Bovary", "\"We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence. \"

- Ramakrishna (1836-1886), Bengali mystic", "\"The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. \"

- John Burroughs (1837-1921), from \“A Bunch of Herbs\”", "\"In the muggy air intermittently lingered a more acute odor, it was coming from a few sprigs of dried patchouli broken into tiny pieces at the bottom of a glass. \"

- Émile Zola (1840-1902), from the novel, \“Nana\”", "\"The perfume of Arabia hath been brought to thee to make perfect thy smell through the scent of the god. Here are brought to thee liquids which have come forth from Râ, to make perfect . . . thy smell in the Hall [of Judgment]. O sweet-smelling soul of the great god, thou dost contain such a sweet odour that thy face shall neither change nor perish. \"

- Le Rituel de l'Embaumement, translated by Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Egyptologist", "\"Fastidious women are as delicately refined in their selection of sweet odours as in every other personal appointment. A high-bred woman does not associate herself with musk or patchouli. The shadow of the clear pungent lavender may precede her but the most sensitive, refined women shrink intuitively from the odours that attract the parvenu. Some of us, in these days of musk and suffocating rose, have frequently wished the promiscuous use of these powerful odours might be restricted. \"

- Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1849-1903), beauty authority, history’s first international cosmetics entrepreneur ", "\" How many times a passing woman's dress, giving off the evaporated whiff of an essence, had whispered to him of long-faded events!\"

- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Novelist.", "\"I am the sovereign of transitory things \"

- Robert de Montesquiu (1855-1921), poet/dandy", "(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 (1871-1922), Novelist", "\"The uncompromising scent of the lilies made the air dense and disconcerted the hymn singing. Some of the congregation hurriedly left the building, while others left their heads droop and slumbered, transported by a strange drowsiness. \"

- Colette (1873-1954), novelist", "\"Perfume, that conqueror of the most subtle of our senses, that informer of our unspoken desires, perfume which from out of the unreliable depths of human memory uncovers the found of tears, the secret of pleasure \"

- Colette (1873-1954), novelist", "\"The search for perfume, which is a pleasure, but also an affliction of the noblest of our senses, follows no other path but that of obsession. \"

- Colette (1873-1954), novelist", "\"My lilac trees are old and tall;
I cannot reach their bloom at all.
They send their perfume over trees
And roof and streets, to find the bees. \"

- Louise Driscoll (1875 - 1957), from \“My Garden Is a Pleasant Place\”", "\"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. \"

- Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist", "\"The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night. \"

- Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), from \“Sorrow Acre\”", "\"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. \"

- (John) Beverly Nichols (1898-1983), author, playwright, composer", "\"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. \"

- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), from \“Mary\”", "\"A poet must leave traces, not proofs, of his passing. Traces alone make us dream. \"

- René Char (1907-1988), poet", "\"If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it ‘Spring’, and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air. \"

- Ann Petry (1908-1997), American author", "\"Doesn't perfume derive its beauty from that sensation of a time that doesn't flow, but soars? Everything in this world is but smoke. \"

- Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), novelist, playwright, screenwriter", "\"As perfume doth remain
In the folds where it hath lain,
So the thought of you, remaining
Deeply folded in my brain,
Will not leave me: all things leave me -
You remain. \"

- Arthur Symons from the poem, “\You Remain\”", "\"Stanley is \“not the type that goes for jasmine perfume\” \"

- Blanche DuBois in \“A Streetcar Named Desire\”", "\"Every perfume I've ever smelled has been to me like a movie, sound and vision, which to most people are thoroughly real senses, but smell ... to me, smell is just as real as they are. \"

- Luca Turin, in The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr", "\"Perfume is the medium by which the lady magically usurps the sexual powers of the blossom. \"

- Tom Robbins, from the novel, \“Jitterbug Perfume\”", "\"Floral earth, the sexual planet...squeezed from the reproductive glands of plants and creatures, perfume, the smell of creation, a sign dramatically delivered to our senses of the Earth's regenerative powers – a message of hope and a message of pleasure... \"

- Tom Robbins, from the novel, \“Jitterbug Perfume\”", "\"Now fetch me some more alcohol, cher. We must dilute this boof before it starts a chain reaction and blows New Orleans into the Gulf. We have a jasmine Nagasaki cooking here! \"

- Madame Lily Devalier in Jitterbug Perfume, a novel by Tom Robbins","\"(Our company) is developing…a truly modern scent – sharp, hard-edged, assertive, unisexual, urbane, unromantic, nonmysterious, cool, light, elegant, and wholly synthetic…Yes, but what you don’t know is how boring and, ultimately frightening I am finding this scent. I slept last night with it on my pillowcase, and my dreams were totalitarian nightmares…I have the sensation I am smelling control, conformity, domination. \"

- Marcel LeFever in Jitterbug Perfume, a novel by Tom Robbins","\"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? \"

- Calvin Trillin, journalist, humorist, novelist", "\"Two people can't maintain a relationship if they don't like each other’s smell. \"

- Dr Susan Schiffman, professor of medical psychology, Duke University Medical Center, USA","\"Scents are like fashion -- The beauty is not intrinsic in the odour. It's in the eye of the beholder, or in this case the nose of the beholder. \"

- Richard Doherty, director of the Smell and Taste Centre at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. ", "\"Retro perfumes put us back in touch with who we are at the deepest level, and for this reason they are of great value. (...) In the face of contemporary uniformity, they offer the imagination of a fragrance, their tenacity upon the skin, their capacity to surprise, their evolving notes...they place a bet on personality \"

- Victoire Gobin Daudé, perfumer", "\"The choice of a perfume has as much to do with the regional culture as with one's preferences. It is even much more controlled by existing social codes than by desires believed to be one's own. \"

- Pierre Bourdon, perfumer", "\"A perfume must be more mysterious than a copy of something in nature. When a man sees a woman, he shouldn't think of a rose; he should think of that woman. \"

- Perfumer Jean Paul Guerlain on the philosophy of his grandfather, Jacques Guerlain", "\"A perfume that lasts bears a sense of the future. \"

- Michel Roudnitska, Perfumer/Artist", "\"I've learned, that when you turn out the lights, you don't see a woman's dress, or her jewels, or the hairstyle she's worked so hard to achieve. You smell her scent, which is the most intense form of memory. And my secret is that love has been related to every fragrance I've created. As my grandfather told me when I was 16, we should always create perfumes for the women whom we love. \"

- Jean-Paul Guerlain, perfumer", "\"Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing. \"

- Gianni Versace, fashion designer", "\"When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume. \"

- Oscar De La Renta, fashion designer", "\"I wash with my own soap - wear my own perfume ... go to bed with my own sheets ... have my own food products ... I live on me. \"

- Pierre Cardin, fashion designer", "\"A perfume is an intimate object; it is the reflector of the heart. \"

- Emanuel Ungaro, fashion designer", "\"A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality \"

- Gianfranco Ferre, fashion designer", "\"Matt's so metro. He wears perfume a lot of the time. \"

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