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Perfumery

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Fontaine wrote: “To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows sluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection with the…”

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Perfumery · Heading 567; source line 3700 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows sluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection with the beloved object, it shows that when he marries, he will find her to be a slut. A girl who dreams this, will be apt to have a shiftless lover.

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