Re: Harvest Festival – Enfleurage Give Away

[Guest guest]

 

 

Autumn has finally arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. It has been a busy Summer

for me. Many months later and thousans of flowers later, I have completed the

enfleurage extracts for the season. So, many people have expressed the wish to

smell them, that I decided to share in the bounty of the harvest I will be

giving away six iml samples of the extracts I made, the rest will go into my

perfumes this year. Just leave a comment on the article and you will be entered

into the draw. I will announce the winner next Saturday, 31 March.

http://africanaromatics.com/int/harvest-festival-enfleurage-give-away/

Good Luck!

Sophia

Hi Sophia,

 I left a comment on your blog, however I want to talk a bit more about White

Ginger and Plumerias, and I didn't want to leave a huge post.  As I mentioned,

I love White Ginger and Plumeria. I planted a white ginger by the front stoop of

my friend's former apartment. He moved out, however I still live in the complex

and get to enjoy the blooms still. The scent is like a perfume in itself!  I

also tried planting Kahili ginger-I had it in a pot and when I went ahead and

planted it in the ground, someone yanked it out!  I have not idea what happened

to it.  I'm going to take some of the rhizome and plant some by my friends new

apartment. He was rather fond of it too.  It was so nice when we would be

watching tv in his room and the scent would come wafting through the windows! 

Ahhhh nice!

  I have two plumerias in pots right now. At one time I had five. The ones I

have now are called Key West Red (red, of course)and Miami Rose(different shades

of pink). The Key West Red has never bloomed for me(it almost did, then I had to

take it inside for the winter when I lived in Chicago and the buds fell off

eventually) but the Miami Rose has.  It has a tropical floral and coconutty

scent.  It's not very strong or diffusive unfortuneately, although you can

smell it when you are quite close to the plant.  The Key West Red is supposed

to have a rather diffusive scent. We'll see. I used to have two yellow/white

varieties, which were unnamed and I believe were a cultivar called Celadine,

which in Hawaii are the most common yellow, and they are also called Common

Yellow.  But it's hard to be sure.  The smell was the best!  The first time

it bloomed I thought " It smells like Hawaii! " .  There is something in it's

makeup that reminds me of

Lily-Of-the-Valley as well.  Unfortunately I lost my last yellow plumie in

storage( I gave the other away).  I agree; the white and yellow varieties

smell the best.  There is a white variety called Singapore which I think smells

the best. The petals and leaves have a rounded shape and they bloom

year-round.  When I stayed in Hawaii, there was a grove of Singapore plumerias

that you had to walk through.  In the evenings, mornings, and sometimes

afternoons as well, you could smell the flowers yards away, before you even got

to the grove!  The scent profile is similar between the yellow varieties and

the Singapore, but the Singapore is richer, fuller, and more diffusive. 

Another kind that has a knockout scent is called Kauka Wilder.  It is called a

red but to me looks more like a deep rose/magenta with yellow.  It too smells

rather coconutty, but it's much stronger than Miami Rose.  There are other

varieties that I've either read about that are

supposed to be incredibly fragrant and I've experienced others in Hawaii that

were very fragrant too.

  Plumerias grow here in South Florida, but they aren't planted as much as they

are in Hawaii, and the ones that are are mostly a pink variety that has a very

slight scent.  Occasionally you see a yellow or white kind, but I've never seen

red, peach, or rainbow types anywhere.  They aren't used much in public

landscaping, you see them mostly in private gardens.  I would love to somehow

get more planted in parks and streets.

[Guest guest]

Hi , so lovely to hear about your experiences with the Gingerlilies and

Plumerias. It will be interesting to compare the scents from different countries

as the Frangipanies often Hybridise. So your yellow and white might not be the

same as the ones here. Finding our exactly what cultiver a Plumeria is, is also

problematic, as each grower seems to give them, their particular name.

Originally, from what I remember there was 5 cultivers.

Sophia

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