Lilacs

[perkk]

It's spring, and the warm carries the scent of Lilac. Often I will put a sprig of Lilac flowers in my car to make it smell nice. As a kid, I remember sucking the pollen out of lilac flowers for fun. I have long held a love for floral flavors and scents. There are so many, here are but a few of my favorites from other the years:
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Comments

[kauko]

The honeysuckle is in bloom now here and I think it is the most incredible smell. Every time I smell it I literally have to stop and savor it. Every May/ June here you can smell honeysuckle on the wind all over.

*sigh*

[perkk]

I love honeysuckle, but there isn't much of it up here in Minnesota. When last I was in Seattle, I caught wild Jasmine in bloom; and that stopped me in my tracks.

[famousauthor]

Doctor Bashir once observed that Worf smelled of lilac.

LOL

[perkk]

Expect the unexpected! Excellent reply, thank you.

[perkk]

I would love to try Cranberry Honey. I've tried a variety of honeys over the years. If you have any left, please bring some over some time! I bet it would make a nice mead, if one had enough of it.

[terpsichord]

I share your love of lavendar. I had a start of a good stand that I'd put out last year, but it got badly bit during the freakish Spring we had; I was out of town, and it didn't occur to me to call a neighbor and have her cover it for me. It's trying to come back, but I think I need to just yank it and start over. A neighbor in another house had a huge stand of lavendar by her front door...when you stood at her door, you were just bathed in it, it was such a wonderfully welcoming gesture...

My boxer had demodectic mange when I first got him to my house out of Boxer Rescue...a friend suggested a homeopathic treatment consisting of some water with lemon boiled in it with lavendar oil mixed in. It healed him up lickety split, and the house smelled amazing...

ooohh...

[themadblonde]

do you still have the recipe, please? I'd really like to have that- I work w/ Rescue.

Re: ooohh...

[terpsichord]

It's pretty basic...one lemon cut up and boiled in a coupla cups of water, then when the water is cooling put in about 8-10 drops of the lavendar oil (which I got at a health food store). Mix it up really good before applying (the oil tends to separate out), and apply to the demodex spots. I think it stings a bit, but not too badly...it really seemed to do the trick. Hug the puppies for me!

will do

[themadblonde]

thanks again!

[perkk]

I have several tins too, but I replenished my supply as they become depleted.