May 11
Lilacs: scent of the Gods
Cats: Uncategorized|If you have lilacs growing near you right now, run out pick a bunch and another bunch and another. Then take them inside and put them in water. Put the flowers close to your face and inhale the intense sweet scent. Then place the small bouquets in rooms where you spend time, the kitchen for instance. Then sit back and allow lilacs to disseminate their intoxicating perfume through your space. You can almost get drunk on the smell.
But they won’t last long. So do it. Now
June 11th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I was trying to find one of those home fragrance oils of lilac but there are none to be had.
I checked the Body Shop (both US and Canada) and also Bath and Body Works (which we don’t have here).
But when I was in San Diego in March, I found a clearance of Lotus Petal at the Body Shop and it smells very similar to lilac.
That’s the best I can do…
Although we now have some peonies growing in the yard…
June 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Ah, no trees in your back yard?
When I die I want them to stuff my coffin full of lilacs, meaning I will have to plan my death for the one week in June they are in blossom, and then I will lie for eternity with that fragrance all around me….
June 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Yes, that’s a good plan.
When we moved in 3 years ago there was a nice little garden, lovingly tended by the
gnomesprevious owners and it didn’t take long for me to kill everything. Currently we are left with only the peonies, some honeysuckle and I think one clematis…I don’t know…I’ll take some pictures and post them tomorraJune 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
honeysuckle is a lovely fragrance too. If I die out of lilac season, I’ll take the honeysuckles in my coffin, K? Make sure you tell them Espanya.
June 11th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I’m on it! I accept the challenge…
June 12th, 2007 at 12:02 am
When I die I want my coffin filled with beer, wine, Calcados, and good pot, all to accompany me to the underworld and sustain me in the afterlife. Then again maybe the Egyptians had it wrong? Someone should ask Preston Manning. How about a new honorific ‘National Oracle’? I nominate Preston
June 12th, 2007 at 2:35 am
I followed your advice and rushed strait out into the garden to look for lilacs, unfortunately I could not find any so I substituted it for something I have in an abundance……. Stinging nettles. Just one technical problem don’t hold them close to your face, the sensation after the 72nd sting is quite interesting but the acrid smell of the antihistamine cream hasn’t done wonders for my social life!
June 12th, 2007 at 4:41 am
I love lilacs but I have to say Mock Orange is my fave.
Or Guinness.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Ro, Ouch! I’ve had encounters with stinging nettles…
June 12th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Body Shop used to sell a lilac fragrance and it was divine. Every time a woman in the office wore it, I had to fight off the urge to sit on her lap and sniff her all day.
I went looking for the stuff, and they’d discontinued it. Even Crabtree and Evelyn, which has lovely Lily of the Valley line (another wonderful fragrance), doesn’t do lilac.
I am telling you though, GT, if you love fragrant flowers, plant varieties of narcissi bulbs in your non-garden this fall. The white ones smell heavenly!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Jacy, I’m going to rename you: Frances of Narcissi….
June 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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