Silent Flowers & Fragrant Fantasies

Despite centuries of acquired knowledge, the symbiosis of perfume ingredient processing skills with the artful touch of the perfumer’s alchemy, some flowers remain frustratingly ‘silent’ – their fragrance impossible to extract through traditional methods such as enfleurage (the labour-intensive process of placing trays of scented petals in wax to capture their often capricious perfumed oils).

Other blooms are disappointingly ‘mute’, with no scent at all, instead enticing…