Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Perfume Garden: An Interesting Fragrance Fact

A perfume created for Queen Elizabeth I inspired one of the show gardens at the Chelsea Garden Show that occurred from May 18 - 23. Garden designers Laurie Chetwood and Patrick Collins created the Perfume Garden, “an olfactory journey through time from the earliest of perfumes to the modern day." Red Cedar formed the "base" of the garden. "All the other plantings [had] roles in fragrance creation, including lavender, rose, fern and rose root. Pine, fennel, geranium, iris, sage and thyme [were] also present, as [were] hyacinth, lily and narcissus," according to Cosmetics International.

Source: Cosmetics International

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