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fragrant

f ray gruhnt

  • a  pleasant-smelling

  • There's everything from extract of anchan (a Thai flower better known for the violet food coloring it yields) to ylang-ylang (a fragrant oil distilled from the flower of a Cananga .
  • The Dominican Republic in addition to all these, can grow the fragrant cassie bush, whose oil is now so scarce that perfumers cannot obtain it for love nor money.
  • The children are designated as shokoofeh (literally, blossoms), and the teachers give each child a stalk of a fragrant flower.
News & Articles

  • Friends of the San Pedro: Wiles and guiles of plants at the SPRNCA
    Ginny Bealer photo Fruit distributed by animal: Devil’s Claw, Proboscidea parviflora. If a plant species relies on wind for pollination, its pollen-producing stamens and seed-producing pistils will be exposed to open air, and other flower parts, like petals and sepals, will be small or missing entirely. It would be a waste of energy for these plants to make their flowers showy, fragrant, or ...
    June 16, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald
  • Miniature Masterpieces
    Kimberly Masters creates fragrant, decorative bars of soap you can hang from a tree or use for washing up. / Photo by Perrin Todd
    June 12, 2013 - Asheville Citizen-Times
  • 2013 Farmers markets in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam - WITH MAP
    The arrival of the season’s farmers markets comes with a gentle reminder to slow down. Embrace the spontaneity of open-market shopping and cook what is fragrant and fresh, not what’s on your list.
    June 12, 2013 - The Journal News
Quotes

  • Uday Singh in Vancouver Sun
    I have every sympathy with the whole family, especially with the mother who has suffered most,Singh said in a room stacked with papers and books, including several he has written. "To me they are like a bunch of flowers, very fragrant and...
  • Raymond Chandler in Minneapolis City Pages
    It is not a very fragrant world,Raymond Chandler wrote, "but it is the world you live in."
  • Tina Brown in The Age
    Brown writes that, in no time, her Kensington Palace apartment "was fragrant with the scent of burning joss sticks".

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