Re: Re: OT-CHAT: Iris fragrance

From: Haggstroms <hagg@alaska.net>

A little wrap up on the iris fragrance thread:

A new link on the AIS page offers the orris root Iris -

http://www.variationsgreenhouse.com/orris.htm

Fragrant iris seem to be rarer than I thought, and apparently have nothing to do
with perfumery. In addition to Arpege, Codicil is supposed to be highly fragrant.
The above information was given me by a fellow lister who prefers to stay in
digest mode, although I begged her to present her tidbits of information, as she
is a fragrant iris fan, and far more knowledgeable than me :-)

Anner, you were correct about "L' Heure Bleu" 's iris content. It indeed has some.
The Hermes Hiris website address I gave in a prior email has a search page wherein
you may search perfumes by their content. When I entered "iris" it gave me a list
of fragrances that are known to use iris (orris root). Along with L ' Heure Bleu
was ANOTHER fragrance, "Ysatis",  that I am partial to. I can only conclude I seem
to like fragrances with an orris root component.

And about experimenting with the rhizomes of beardless iris: I do know it  will
probably yield little in the way of fragrance, as I'm sure it has been tried
before, and has never been mentioned as fragrant, but I think I will go ahead
anyway. I have ready access to massive wild clumps that will easily produce a good
quantity of rhizomes, and I might find some interesting information in the process
of doing this.
Kathy Haggstrom
Anchorage, AK USA/zone 3



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