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My favorite sentence [fragment] from Jean-Claude Ellena's <em>Perfume:</em>
<blockquote>...between their hands, perfume becomes a fashion accessory, an imponderable and indispensable flourish, the most essential of inessentials...</blockquote>
I love that description of <a href="http://www.everydaytreats.com/2008/02/perfume.html">perfume</a>; I don't need it, but I love it. Of all the frivolous things to pamper myself with, it's the one that is most personal to me.

What's your essential inessential?