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Lilac Time
I love lilacs, and they’re blooming like crazy right now. My neighbor’s lilac bush is heavenly. And there’s an abandoned house right near the elementary school that has SIX beautiful lilac bushes in...
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The Big Violet List
There is something about cool weather that makes me long for violets. I don’t know why I love violet scents, given that the violets that grow wild in this part of the country are scentless, shy...
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A Week of Violets II: Annick Goutal La Violette
My second review for Violet Week, a joint blog project along with Redolent of Spices and Scent of the Day, is for Annick Goutal’s La Violette. This scent is actually a violet soliflore, where Caron...
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May Day, 2013
(Is this photo not absolutely gorgeous? Click on it to be taken to the photographer’s Flickr page.) Not having had much of a tradition of celebrating May Day, other than the Maypoles we used to dance...
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Peonies, and Peony Fragrances
Peonies are some of my favorite flowers. I adore them. My Sarah Bernhardt peonies – blooms six inches across! One of my grandmothers grew them. The other grandmother adored them as well, would stop...
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Mini-Review Roundup, Jan. 19, 2018
Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom, 2010 reorchestration of the 1976 release, composed by Bertrand Duchaufour: really very nice. I had bought this small split portion a couple of years ago, and then...
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