A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.
topic: Perfume, Mystique, Abstraction

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
source: "Neil Young: The Last American Hero" by Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1979.

source: Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press
topic: Art, Men, Effectiveness, Mystique, Artistic Creation

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
topic: Women, Creative, Way, Mystique, Creative Work
topic: Women, Diversity, Enemy, Mystique, Inadequate
topic: Sex, America, Promise, Mystique, Feminine Mystique
source: The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)
topic: Husband, Children, Struggle, Dissatisfaction, Mystique
source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
topic: Strength, Freedom, Voice, Mystique, Lost Youth
source: "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.
topic: Home, Desire, Want, Mystique, Domestic Life
topic: Country, Names, Justice, Mystique, Kept Woman
topic: Sex, Men, Copying, Handicapped, Mystique
source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
topic: Girl, Sex, Justice, Mystique, Feminine Mystique
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
topic: Real, Women, Memorable, Mystique, Women's Rights
topic: Mother, Children, Pain, Mystique, Feminine Mystique
topic: Years, Wife, House, Dissatisfaction, Mystique
source: Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”
source: Source: www.crosswalk.com
topic: Book, Writing, Mean, Called By God, Mystique
source: Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company
topic: Writing, Ideas, People, Special Gifts, Mystique
topic: Book, Reading, Laughing, Laugh Out Loud Funny, Mystique
topic: Virtue, Commit, Fatherland, Mystique
topic: Powerful, Science, Animal, Mystique, Vivisection
topic: Texas, Two, Special, Mystique, Bigger Than Life
topic: Spiritual, Earth, Poetic, Spiritual Freedom, Mystique
topic: New Orleans, Play, Vampire, Mystique
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
topic: Thinking, Southern, Southerner, Mystique
source: Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”
source: "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.
topic: Player, Atmosphere, Four, Mystique
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
topic: Art, May, Selling, Mystique, High Prices
source: Charles Derber (2014). “Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It”, p.34, St. Martin's Press
topic: Government, Corporations, Illusion, Cornerstones, Mystique
source: Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books
topic: Men, Self, United States, Mystique, Deep Friendship
topic: Editors, Trying, Magazines, Mystique, Feminine Mystique
source: T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media
topic: Girl, Character, Gay, Mystique, Easier Times
source: The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)
topic: Blood, Hands, Water, Mystique, Communism And Socialism
source: "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.
topic: Mother, Mean, Home, Mystique, Wife Mother
topic: Boys, Men, Guilt, Mystique, Moral Development
topic: Feel Better, Apples, Magic, Mystique, Sad Things