Re: flower fragrance

In a message dated 9/10/01 9:02:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com writes:

. And to add to that, they vary from
person to person, an individual can perceive them differently over short
periods of time as well. Frustrating for sure!  
Daffodils generally have a relatively musky scent if they have one at all.  But there are some doubles, such as Sir Winston Churchill that have a citrusy fragrance. And some of the tazettas, Paperwhites being the most well known, have a variety of fragrances.  Yet the tazetta fragrance is perceived by some as very pleasant but by others as noxious.   Hybridizers are working to get pleasant fragrance back into daffodils and there's one call 'Fragrant Rose' that has the slightest fragrance of a rose (it's a gorgeous pink-cupped daffodil to boot). Yet about 10% of the population cannot detect this fragrance in this daffodil. And it diminishes as the flower ages on the stem.

It appears that we don't all have identical connections between our noses and brains.
Bill Lee
South Western Ohio Daffodil Society (SWODS)
(hosts of the 2002 ADS Convention)
"Fun Knights and Daffodil Daze in the Queen City"
April 18-20 2002, Drawbridge Inn, Fort Mitchell, KY
www.swods.net - info, schedule, and registration!!
BE THERE
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