ingrid_berlinin Florals & Bouquets · Berlin ·
DiscoveryOrris root smells nothing like the iris flower
A piece of orris root from a friend's pot-pourri jar. Not a flower at all: carrot, cold earth, a powder that sits very low, like a bass note you feel more than hear. The orris page says the root dries for years before distillation. I wear orris since two years and only now I understand why it is so slow.
/Ingrid
4 comments
theodora.fig
We have an old pot-pourri bowl at the shop and the dust at the bottom smells exactly like that. I always blamed the velvet.
aunty_val
Rose and powder, that's what my mother wore. I wonder now if the powder was orris.
carys.cardiff
The orris page calls the irones in the dried root methylionone odorants, so they're cousins of the violet ionones.
ingrid_berlin
Same chord, different octave.