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Sign up for PureWow Recipes. A valid email address is required. Sign Up. Please enter a valid email address The emails have been sent. Please consider subscribing to PureWow. Sign up for PureWow to get more daily discoveries sent straight to your inbox. Thanks for Sharing! Now like us on Facebook. Want more where that came from? Peony Peonies have lush, romantic-looking flowers with a strong perfume. Lilac These old-fashioned favorites come in pink, purple and white.
Stock Stock is an old-fashioned annual in dreamy pastel colors that thrives in cool temperatures, so plant it in early spring. Sweet Pea Sweet peas have pretty little blooms and a lovely honey-orange scent. Lavender This beautiful perennial has tiny spikes of lightly scented purple flowers. Although it is tempting to lean in and inhale the perfume, you may walk away giddy, with an orange pollen-streaked nose.
Outdoors, they grow from bulbs in partial shade, zones Like a pine forest in the summer rain, the house was redolent with deeply spicy, green balsam, but it was softened with the fresh sweetness of paperwhites, like a gentle welcoming smile. Paperwhites are native to the Mediterranean region, and the bulbs will grow outside in the warmest zones But those in colder climes can enjoy the petite, snow-white flowers and their delicate but dreamy aroma by forcing bulbs indoors, in bowls of pebbles.
The Primrose opens wide in spring; Her scent is sweet and good: It smells of every happy thing In sunny lane and wood. This compact but colorful plant is beloved throughout Europe and the British Isles.
It is the flower of fairies, of the Norse goddess Freya, and the foliage stuff of many legends and lore. And it smells like spring; cool but sunny, sweet but slightly tangy like an orange lollipop.
When taking your evening constitutional on a breezy and brisk day in late March, the waft of fruity fragrance from the first primroses smell of hope and the sweet promise of spring.
They are easy to grow and maintain, in varied conditions, from wet to dry and sun to shade. Most varieties prefer cooler climates, in zones , but there are more than species, one for everyone and everywhere. The evening primrose is a different variety; its night-time scent is glorious. How can I rest? How can I be content when there is still that odor in the world?
This shrub blooms in late spring and early summer with tender white flowers whose centers resemble a scattering of tiny sunbeams.
The blossoms release a cool, citrus smell that is gentle but refreshing. You can cut the flowers and enjoy their elegant fragrance inside. Plant the shrubs as a glorious hedge, or as a stand-alone plant.
They grow well in zones Dirr is a renowned horticulturalist whose love for the viburnum is shared by everyone whose garden is graced by the plant or who has passed by such a garden, enjoying its perfume. This viburnum is a deciduous shrub, with dark pink buds that open to globe-like clusters of tiny white flowers. Their scent is succulent yet aristocratic, a creamy, clove-like aroma.
The flowers emanate a distinct but unpretentious aroma, like sweet iced tea with lemon. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered. The fragrance of honeysuckle evokes a barefooted walk on a sultry afternoon, returning from the beach, salty and sunburned and utterly content.
The vine gracefully consumes the arbored gate beside the lane, and it exhales lemonade and sugar cookies. Honeysuckle loves the warmth, thrives just about anywhere and can grow to great heights. The clustered fruity flowers look like tiny, hanging lanterns with long, droopy stamens.
They smell of summer and of happiness. Where scattered wild the Lily of the Vale Its balmy essence breathes. In gardens, the flower grows for several weeks from early to mid-spring in zones Note: Although the flower looks and smells like the essence of innocence, it is extremely poisonous.
A bouquet of freesias is so full of color and grace it resembles the gathering of fairies in The Sleeping Beauty ballet. Freesias are exotic and elegant flowers with a long, graceful stem that bears six to eight horn-shaped blossoms. Only fragrant once the sun goes down, it wafts an exotic perfume around the air.
Suspended on the branches of a small tropical tree, the yellow buds hang like oversized, upside-down squash blossoms. Most people love the scent of lilacs , but some find it too astringent or similar to a go-to household cleaner.
If you're into them, however, plant some of these multi-stemmed shrubs around your space—and expect to be wowed. Planted in the fall as bulbs, freesia emerge in the spring as bell-shaped flowers lined along a single stem. These flowers come in many hues, including white, golden yellow, orange, red, pink, mauve, lavender, purple and bicolors. Strongly scented, paperwhites are a divisive bud: You either love or hate this type of narcissus.
Plant these florals as bulbs and expect them to bloom in late winter or early spring. And then it's up to you to decide whether the musky scent smells good which is our opinion! Another fall-planted bulb, these tropical-looking, tubular flowers bloom summer through fall.
Their scent will leave you feeling like you're on vacation—even when you're standing in your own garden. This flowering shrub bursts into small white blossoms in spring or early summer. Best of all is the sweet, citrusy scent of its flowers—though they're not actually citrus blossoms.
They are, however, a great alternative for gardeners in climates too cold to grow orange trees. By Johanna Silver Updated April 19, Save Pin More. These blooms will transform your yard into a sweet-smelling oasis. Start Slideshow.
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