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From Petal to Essence : Grasse Rose HarvestI’m drunk on roses. I’m flailing my arms around, making snow angels in the rose petals, and I’m laughing uncontrollably. The experience of sinking into a mass...
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Why This Small French Town Has the World’s Best RosesWhen is a rose not just a rose? When it’s Rosa centifolia, an old varietal so highly scented that it makes the florally obsessed downright covetous....
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Centifolia Rose-Yves RocherThe Rose with one hundred leaves, blooms at the top of leafy bushes 1.5 m high, in small bouquets of bright roses. Originating in the 16thcentury from a cross between...
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GOOD-NIGHT.Good-night is but a little word,Yet beautiful, though brief,And falls upon the gentle heartLike dew upon the leaf—A verdant olive-branch of peaceUpon our pillows pressed,Shedding its...
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Indonesia Spotlight: The Potential of Clove Unlike patchouli, which I previously wrote about in the following articles.....clove trees are outstandingly low maintenance, not prone to many diseases, and...
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Christmas Tree Melange
"Glade jul" by Viggo Johansen, 1851-1935Christmas Tree MelangeA single Hemlock, standing alone, with every curving line ridged with snow, through which the feathery green shines darkly, is a fair...
View ArticleTall bearded iris (fleur-de-lis) a flower of songs. By Walter Stager
Tall bearded iris (fleur-de-lis) a flower of songs. By Walter Stager
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Plant Lore-IrisIRIS.—The Iris of "all hues" derives its name from the goddess Iris, one of the Oceanides, a messenger of the gods, and the especial attendant of Juno. As goddess of the rainbow, she is...
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ROSEMARY.—Rosmarinus, the botanical name of Rosemary, signifies the "dew of the sea," and has been applied to the plant on account of its fondness for the sea-shore. Formerly it was called Rosmarinus...
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Plant Lore-ThymeTHYME.—Among the Greeks, Thyme denoted the graceful elegance of the Attic style, because it covered Mount Hymettus, and gave to the honey made there the aromatic flavour of which the...
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The chemistry of flowers, fruits and spices: live vs. dead a new dimension in fragrance researchBraja D. Mookherjee, Robert W. Trenkle, and Richard A. Wilson
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Copal, pom, is the main Maya incense used in Maya religious ceremonies.
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