kasia.berlinin Florals & Bouquets · Berlin ·
MemoryChrysanthemums at the cemetery gates before All Saints
When October gets cold, in Poland the stalls at every cemetery gate start to fill with chrysanthemums and candles for All Saints. Here in Berlin I found one stall near the Polish church and I stood with my nose in the pots. Bitter, green, a little like sage and wet earth. Not sweet at all. For me this is the smell of November.
3 comments
trudy.lilac
Same bitter green as the pots on my neighbour's steps. I always thought they smelled of nothing until I put my nose right in.
maeve.moss
Here's a thing. At home the graves get tidied before November and the whole road up to the churchyard smells of cut stems and wet stone and candle wax and nobody says a word about it. Like the hush before the last slow air of the night.
kasia.berlin
Yes, the smell is more in the leaves than in the flower.