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by Abigail Hinsman
I have laid 1/4 of the 3,000 tuberose bulbs to dry on the garage floor. Winter preparation is underway, with cutting back the foliage, lifting the ...
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tuberose
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by Abigail Hinsman
Smell connects us to our unbelievably nuanced animal intelligence. The average human being can discriminate between more than one trillion unique o...
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by Abigail Hinsman
I'm constantly being asked, "Why so much shit, piss, glands, musk, rot, dirtiness, and menses?"
Undoubtedly, this question pertains to the base.
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poetics of scent,
poetics of smell,
theory of scent
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by Abigail Hinsman
The coffee plants I purchased in 2017 only started to flower this spring. Now they are on their second, more prolific flush than they had in May. ...
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by Abigail Hinsman
The featured photo shows how I have separated all the individual lilac flowers and laid them on the enfleurage pommade in a thick layer. In my prac...
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by Abigail Hinsman
The Pollen Spattered Bride ☉ enfleurage perfumea l c h e m y ☉1972 yellow gold (ad rave ancient). When the helterskelter's done, when the wreath is...
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by Abigail Hinsman
When we in the US think of Gardenia jasminoides, what comes to mind is a ruffled white Southern belle found inhabiting gardens below the Mason-Dix...
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by Abigail Hinsman
Although we often think of tuberose as a bulb, like lily of the valley and bearded irises, they are actually rhizomatous perennials, putting out ne...
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by Abigail Hinsman
Today I welcomed 3 Gardenia nitida plants to my gardenia collection. My other 22 gardenias are all the more common Gardenia jasminoides cultivars....
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by Abigail Hinsman
Second tincture of the fresh fruit and seeds of cacahuatl (cacao, Theobroma cacao). In South America, where the plant was perhaps first cultivated ...
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kagaw,
kakaw,
kakawa,
kakawatl
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by Abigail Hinsman
Native to Mesoamerica's deep tropics, the cacao is an ancient plant that fruits and flowers directly from the trunk in cauliflory. The seeds (cac...
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kagaw,
kakaw,
kakawa,
kakawatl,
theobroma,
theobroma cacao
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by Abigail Hinsman
"Oakmoss." A staple note in perfumery, if not an ingredient. What is oakmoss? Well, it's not a moss for one, and it's not a single sp...
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