perfumers-in-chief

Updated: May 17, 2025

The flowers are heavily fragrant, like gardenias, and are almost too sweet for the house; but they, together with violets, give the garden the opulence of odour before the lilacs are open, or the heliotropes that are to be perfumers-in-chief in summer have graduated from thumb pots in the forcing houses.

Mabel Osgood Wright - The Garden, You, and I