Rangoon Creeper - a new flower for perfumery
Last year Trygve of Enfleurage asked me if I was growing Quisqualis in my fragrant garden. She knew I grew and harvested fragrant flowers leaves and roots for scent extraction. The distillations, tinctures and enfleurage washes are made from my garden bounty and find their way into my perfumes. At first the name didn't register, then I remembered Rangoon Creeper, a vine that is almost a weed here in South Florida. It can spread aggressively, covering trees and buildings! I decided to give it a try, on a length of fence on the far side of my property, a place that doesn't get any supplemental irrigation. Within one year, the vine is about 25' long, and is setting out spreader branches in several directions. I'll prune it to keep in check, and in the meantime, I'm enjoy the nighttime/early morning fragrance of the thousands of flowers blooming. I'm growing the single-flowers variety, and there is a double-flowered variety available. The double-flowered va