Nice Smelling Flowers

[tiggerblue10]

I am useless in the garden and don't really know flowers very well. What are your favourite smelling flowers?

I do have an ulterior motive for this question - I'm still looking for a perfume that smells like the aroma I smelt when walking through the gardens of Hever Castle several years ago. I know there is a perfume or maybe even a body lotion or deodorant, as I've smelt it since then when people have walked past me. I've spent loads of time in Boots and perfume shops smelling perfumes but nothing comes close.

I think I'm obssessed :o(

[tiggerblue10]

Thank you all. I'm writing all these down :o)

[coccinelle]

One of the lovliest scents is Daphne, very strong and around March time. Then there's honeysuckle which is divine in May or June (depending on the honeysuckle).

[tiggerblue10]

I've never heard of that one Oliviagrace. I'll look that one up as well.

[tamborine]

honeysuckle, wisteria, frangipani, marigolds

[webbo3]

Agree with Olivia and coccinelle, Daphne Odora, fantastic at the moment, you can smell it from a long way away.


Dave.

[daffy654]

Hever Castle has a website with a page of photographs of some of their flowers in different seasons. Why not have a look and see if anything jogs your memory.

http://www.hevercastle.co.uk/

[society]

I bought some geranium scented soap and the scent is really fragrant and lovely, and makes the whole place smell beautiful.

[ladybirder]

Definitely Daphne, and so early in the year as well. For cut flowers Freesia and in the garden the wonderful Lavender. Oh and Honeysuckle and Iceburg Roses and ..........

[askyourgran]

Hyacinth, freesia, and roses, and nicotina?

[237SJ]

Maybe it was just a mixture of different flower scents. I can still remember the smell of all the different flowers that had been left outside St James Palace when Princess Diana died. I`m not sure that smell has ever been replicated in a perfume because perfumes tend to be based on one or two flowers

[atalanta]

wallflowers are very sweetly scented. They should be out soon. Walking past a big bed of wallflowers can be delightful.

[Brinjal]

Tuberose.

[tiggerblue10]

Thanks everyone, I now know which ones to look out for at the garden centre :o)

[sara3]

you have to stop people and ask what smellies they're wearing!

[tiggerblue10]

I did once Sara, and they said Vera Wang, Princess. Went to Boots to check it out and it didn't seem like the same smell. I waited till the sample card lost some of its pungency but it still wasn't the same one. May have been someone else in the vacinity.

I'll try again next time the aroma wafts past me!

[coccinelle]

I was once in a garden and somebody mentioned a lovely flower smell and there was nothing round about; it was my perfume. Check it out, Dahlia Noir by Givenchy.

[tiggerblue10]

Will do Coccinelle :)

[Brinjal]

Perfumes do smell differently on different people so may not smell the same on you.

[Kiki-frog]

Freesias are gorgeous. I think my favourite has to be honeysuckle, though