Sayyiduna Abu Musa Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Any woman who applies perfume and passes by people so that they may perceive her fragrance, she is an adulteress and immoral.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he met a woman and sensed a very pleasant and strong fragrance from her. Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked her: "Do you intend to go to the mosque?" She replied: "Yes." He asked: "Is that why you have applied perfume?" She replied: "Yes." He said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any woman who applies perfume for the mosque, Allah does not accept her prayer until she performs a bath like the bath of major ritual impurity (ghusl janabah). Therefore, go back and perform ghusl."

Zumrah bin Saeed narrates from his grandmother, and she from a woman of her family, who had prayed in the direction of both Qiblahs with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. She says: The Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, came to me and said: "Apply dye to your hands, for women abandon henna until their hands begin to resemble those of men." After this command, that woman never abandoned henna, until she met Allah, and she would still apply henna even when she was eighty years old.

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that a woman stretched out her hand towards the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from behind a veil, but the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) withdrew his hand and said: I do not know whether this is the hand of a man or a woman. She said: Yes, I am a woman. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If you are a woman, you should have changed the color of your nails with henna.

Karimah bint Hammam says: I entered the Sacred Mosque and found Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) alone. A woman asked her: O Mother of the Believers! What is your opinion about henna? She said: My beloved Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) liked its color, but disliked its smell. However, it is not forbidden; observe it either in a state of purity or after the completion of menstruation.

(Second chain) Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: O group of women! Refrain from applying saffron to your faces. At that moment, a woman asked her about henna. She said: There is no harm in it, but I do not like it, because my beloved, peace and blessings be upon him, disliked its smell.

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the wife of Sayyiduna Uthman bin Maz'un (may Allah be pleased with him) used to apply henna and perfume, but then she abandoned these things. She came to me, so I asked her: Is your husband present at home or is he absent? She said: He is present, but as if he is absent. I said: What do you mean? What are you trying to say? She said: Uthman neither desires the world nor has any inclination towards women. Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) says that when the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me, I told him about this matter. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) met Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: O Uthman! Do you have faith in the same way as we have faith? He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If this is the case, then there is no example or model for you among us, so do as we do.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that when fragrance was brought to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not refuse it.

(Second chain) It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that there was never an occasion when fragrance was presented before the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he rejected it.

It is also narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Among the things of this world, women and perfume have been made beloved to me, and the coolness of my eyes has been placed in prayer.