Ask the Perfumer - Sunday, August 12, 2012 until 10 PM EST
August in Miami is a pleasure to a perfumer's nose. Some of the blooming treasures in my front garden this morning are jasmine grandiflorums climbing by my front door, Vietnamese gardenias, ylang ylangs, jasmine sambac longipetalum, angel's trumpets and four o'clocks. Everything but the angel's trumpets and four o'clocks are fragrant now. The angel's trumpets will start pumping out their sweet, spicy perfume around dusk, and the four o'clocks will start smelling of grape soda around, well, four o'clock in the afternoon. Such inspiration! Do you have any perfumery questions, or scented plant questions? I'll be here to answer them unti 10 PM EST. Grape-soda scented four o'clock. I know the natural chemical constituent that makes it smell like the commercial grape soda, but I prefer the common, less technical common name for the flower. Angel trumpets touching the sky, heralding down their fragrance from above. A solo jasmine gra