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Florals & Bouquets, page 2

Rose, jasmine, tuberose, lily of the valley: flowers in the garden and in perfume.

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pip.rhubarbin Florals & Bouquets · Wakefield ·

Exercise
Close-up of a velvety red rose in the rose garden of Lalbagh, Bangalore

A garden rose next to a bottle of rose water

Last rose in the school garden and a bottle of rose water from the corner shop, side by side on the staffroom table. The rose is sharp, nearly lemony. The water is sweeter and flatter, like jam that's been on the heat too long. The rose page says rose water…

Rose

mo_from_leicester The rose water on my shelf is the one everyone buys before Eid and weddings. Never once put it next to a real rose. Doing it tonight.

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harriet.hayin Florals & Bouquets · Bristol ·

Exercise

Three kitchen florals, eyes closed, shuffled by someone else

Something for a wet weekend indoors. Find three florals in the kitchen cupboard: rose water, orange flower water (the baking sort) and a jasmine tea bag. Put a drop of each water on a strip of kitchen roll, open the tea bag onto a saucer, and ask someone to…

Rose Orange blossom Jasmine

joon.yuzu Two out of three. I swapped the last two: - rose water: easy, jammy - orange flower water: I said jasmine, soap and honey - jasmine tea: I said…

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carys.cardiffin Florals & Bouquets · Cardiff ·

Discovery

Reading up on violets and their vanishing extract

Read the violet page on my lunch break. Sweet violet was a favourite scent of the late Victorian period, yet true violet flower extract had almost disappeared by the late 1950s. The violet in a bottle today comes from ionones, a name taken from the Greek word…

Violet Orris

aunty_val My mother's powder compact smelled like that, violets and something sweet. I never knew it wasn't the flower.

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frankie.incensein Florals & Bouquets · Chicago ·

Reading

Enfleurage: swapping flowers on a sheet of fat

Fun fact, with a source: in cold enfleurage, as Wikipedia's article on enfleurage describes it, fat was spread on glass, flowers were laid on it and replaced again and again until the fat was saturated. That scented fat, the pomade, was then washed in ethyl…

Jasmine Tuberose

juniper_jules Fat drinking up scent sounds more like bisque drinking glaze then anything I'd call chemistry.

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priya.cardamomin Florals & Bouquets · Toronto ·

Challenge

Describe a rose without using the word rose

Thread of the week: a rose, without the word. 1) Find a rose, a bottle of rose water, a rose soap, anything you have. 2) Describe it in one line without saying rose, petal or flower. 3) Guess what the person above you was smelling. Mine: cardamom chai with a…

Rose Geranium

mo_from_leicester Guessing Priya has rose water from the kitchen. Mine: a wedding hall at midnight when the garlands start to wilt, sweet and a bit like old tea leaves.

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wren.and.mossin Florals & Bouquets · Asheville ·

Question
Close-up of packed white, waxy tuberose flowers with green buds between them

Is one tuberose stem meant to be this loud?

A neighbor gave me one stem of tuberose from her pots before the first frost. It's on the kitchen table and I can smell it from the porch. Green at first, and now almost like coconut milk. Is it always this loud?

Tuberose

mags.lavender Yes, the tuberose page calls it overwhelming and heady, and says perfume uses it in moderation for that reason. I had one in a vase once and it was…

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