The sandal-tree perfumes when riven
The axe that laid it low:
Let man who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe. [ Sadi ]

An ass among perfumes, (i.e. things he cannot appreciate).

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]

Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. [ Dr. Johnson ]

God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. [ Sydney Smith ]