The Instructor 2.8.64

Aristippus lived luxuriously. He posed a sophistical argument of this kind: a horse anointed with perfume is not harmed in its excellence as a horse, nor a dog perfumed in its excellence as a dog; so neither is a human being, he concluded. But for horse and dog perfume means nothing; while for those whose perception is more rational, the enjoyment is more blameworthy when they wear girlish scents. The varieties of these perfumes are countless: brenthium, metallium, royal, plangonium, and Egyptian psagdas. Simonides, in his iambics, is not ashamed to say: “And I anointed myself with perfumes and incense and baccaris; for a merchant was at hand.” They also cultivate perfume from lilies and from henna; nard is esteemed among them, and ointment from roses, and the others that women still use, liquid and dry, powders and perfumes for burning. For every day they invent an insatiable supply of fragrance to match the insatiability of desire; so they reek of great tastelessness. Some even fumigate and sprinkle their clothes, beds, and houses; luxury all but forces the chamber pots to smell of perfume.