Re: still foetid
- Subject: Re: still foetid
- From: Jason D j*@yahoo.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:31:37 -0700 (PDT)
It just so happens, David, that we're having a
heavenly stretch of warm weather here in the SF Bay
Area, with Brugmansia carrying on the warm night air
for more than a block, and other, less familiar flower
fragrances piquing my attention, adding new dimensions
to the olfactory landscape. Amazing what a different
place this is when we have warm evenings.
Cheers,
Jason
San Francisco, California
--- david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kerrie
> Your comment about Tuberose makes me smile. Now
> that
> I am here in Bali, and they are a favorite flower in
> abundance at almost every hotel here in Ubud, I can
> appreciate how fragrant they should be in the ideal
> environment. At home in cool and foggy summers like
> those in Berkeley, California, they are a distinct
> nonperformer, and I never understood what the hoopla
> was about. Here they are called "the fragrant night
> flower", and the perfume is heavenly. The
> Plumeria/Frangipani are also everywhere at the
> moment,
> and equally fragrant. I think the extra humidity
> seems to help carry the scent here, and the only
> thing
> that seems to compare back at home is the Brugmansia
> or Cestrum, as well as good old Jasminum polyanthum.
>
> > To which I reply: Don't you get it? The gardenias
> > were used to cover up the dead, rotting smell?
> Your
> > grandfather did a typical transference association
> > of the gardenias with the dead smells, but I am
> sure
> > if he had only encountered gardenias (or late in
> the
> > summer, tuberoses)on a warm summer night as he
> > walked up my walkway for a home-cooked meal and
> good
> > conversation, he would adore the smell as my
> summer
> > guests do. I am not saying I want to be covered
> in
> > this heavy sweetness, but I assure you my summer
> > suppers would have a much different beginning for
> > people if one of those black, phallic death arums
> > were to greet them coming up the walk! LOL!
> > Anyway, I DO understand their place as botanical
> > curiosities in the wild or REMOTE corners of
> public
> > collections, I just think masks ought to be
> issued!
> > Oh well, anyone who knows me can tell you I'm
> > especially smell sensitive, anyway.
> >
> > Just ruffling feathers,
> > Karrie Reid
> > Folsom Fragrant Gardener
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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