Perfume
Perfume inhaled often touches happy incidents, but a broken bottle brings cherished wishes ending disastrously even as they promise joy. The dream may ask where a lovely, lingering pleasure is reaching you, and whether you're savouring it simply or spilling and breaking the very thing you most wanted to keep.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for perfume, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of inhaling perfume, is an augury of happy incidents.
For you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you will seek and obtain adulation.
Being oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy will impair your mental qualities.
To spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which affords you pleasure.
To break a bottle of perfume, foretells that your most cherished wishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise a happy culmination.
To dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments and associations will be of the pleasantest character.
For a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells ecstatic happenings. If she receives it as a gift from a man, she will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures.