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France and the Iris Flower

May is iris season, when blue flowers flutter like butterflies among green leaves. The French revere the iris as their national flower, symbolizing purity and integrity. Its fragrance carries an elegant French sophistication.

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Gardenia Blooms: Dragon Boat Festival Arrives

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After May's Dragon Boat Festival, gardenias flourish in full bloom. With lush green leaves and pristine white flowers resembling jasmine, gardenias cannot be naturally extracted for essential oil, so perfumers blend similar scents to create gardenia fragrance.

June Jasmine

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Jasmine blooms in June with fresh, delicate fragrance—the most enchanting floral scent of summer.

Sensory Memory: From Broth to Perfume—Oil as Scent's Gentle "Fixative"

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In fragrance craftsmanship, we don't simmer broths, but we use fixatives to preserve memories. Animal bases like musk and amber function similarly to animal fats in cooking—their large molecules evaporate slowly, lending warmth and sensuality to scent.

Scent Guide | Camellia japonica L.

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Camellia japonica L. features bowl-shaped of petals and glossy green leaves. This shrub or small tree, also called sea pomegranate, is prized in beauty and fragrance applications.

Scent Guide | Styrax benzoin

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Benzoin (Styrax benzoin) is a reddish-brown resin secreted by the benzoin tree, a precious aromatic ingredient. The tree is primarily found in Vietnam, Cambodia, Sumatra, and Thailand.

Fragrance in Shakespeare: Violet

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"Lay her i' th' earth, and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring!" — Laertes｜《 Hamlet 》

Fragrance in Shakespeare: Aqua Vitae

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"No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. Ah, where's my man?—Give me some aqua vitae.— These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old." — The Nurse｜《Romeo and Juliet》

Saffron in Shakespeare: Fragrance & Meaning

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"No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there, whose villainous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour." -- Lafeu | 《All's well that ends well》

Scents in Shakespeare: Grass

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" The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strow'd, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delightful measure or a dance, For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. "

LFP: Plants, Flowers and Liquors in Shakespeare's Plays

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【 LFP Specialist 】Explore the history of botanical plants, perfume crafting, and spirits production through Shakespeare's Plays.

Canvas : Creation is an Adventure

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With focus narrowing to exam subjectsㄝ, art education fades when students progress comes to secondary school. Yet in an era which personal value shines brightest these days, don't be fear of creativity grows, just express yourself through fragrance creation.

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