Flowers inside
And the winner of Wednesday’s Sample Discovery Set give-away, picked with Random.org is…. Vasily!
Congratulation. Please e-mail me your coordinates at perfumer(at)tauerperfumes.com.
Now, that this is done… packing another big box with fragrances, making samples, and labeling Incense rosé bottles of yesterday is on the to-do-list of today.
And, from time to time, I will visit my Jasmine in the living room!, saved two months ago from snow and ice, in bloom these days, and transforming a room in grey Zurich (snow around the corner, a sky that is dark like the economic outlook these days) into an oriental fragrant delight.
Fragrant greetings to you all and a lovely weekend. Enjoy.
Picture uploaded by Andy:
Jasmine in Zurich, in bloom. Amazing…
November 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
Congratulations to the winner! (and easy envy, that it not I :-)
Dear Andy, I at once has learned Jasmine, my grandmother added one flower in a cup of tea - now it grows at our kitchen window. When Jasmine blossoms - the premise is filled with delicate aroma, and I at once recollect the childhood.
Good weekend to you, W.-factor and to all readers blog
November 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Happy weekend to you Andy and W.-factor and Wladimir :-)
Cold weather is falling over Prague, grey skies and snow is underway…
Longtime ago a nice lady gave me a lovely book with poems called “Jasmine in the Air” .
This post just reminded me of that booklet.
xoxo
November 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Wow! if to edit background a little, this pic could go to one of your flyers
November 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Congratulations to Vasily who will be sent to the fragrant discovery trip in a Tauerland.
Nice to see your Jasmine, Andy, which is blooming grateful to you for saving it from the cold. I couldn’t keep mine in life… pity, because I like its scented flowers so much. And fortunately I can look to your picture smelling the absolute or another jasmine fragrance…
Have a nice weekend too everyone!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
How nice (and strange) to see the same kind of jasmine blooming in your house as is blooming in mine, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. The weather is the same here, too, in New England in the US–cold, gray, and dark. It is the scent of jasmine that warms my soul. Congratulations to lucky Vasily!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 am
What a surprise! I wasn’t really thinking I might win the drawing when I posted … mostly just thinking about what I was posting. I’ll have to think long & hard about what I’ll do with the sampler. Thanks, Andy, for the joy and good words you’ve given us over the years … I’ve learned a lot here!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am
Dear Vladimir
It is great having you back! Have a lovely weekend yourself!
Dear Marianne
And we, here in Zurich, are under a 2 cm snow cover this morning. Winter is here!
Dear Jeff
Thank you!So, so you say: Time for an eau d’indole
Dear Aromax
I wonder whether mine will survive a long Swiss winter, forced to stay inside for half a year…. keep you posted on that one!
Dear Kathryn
Indeed, Kathryn, this is nice! Do you happen to have a mandarine tree, too? Mine is shortly blooming again (inside the house, too!) I will post about this treasure when the first flowers open…
Dear Vasily
Congratulations again. And many thanks for your comment!
Did you not win something on my blog earlier? You seem to be a lucky guy. Parcel is being shipped in 90 minutes…
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Woo-hoo! Congratulations, Vasily!!
Love the jasmine…looking forward to mine blooming…soon, I hope, though I have lemons on that tree, and am quite enjoying that as this is the first time I have had lemons!
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Dear Andy,
You’re right, I won something a while back … maybe a sample of Incense Rose? Perhaps my luck is improving. Not my memory, though. :)
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am
Greetings from Australia, Andy. That looks like Jasmin Polyanthum, which grows over just about everyone’s fence over here! It’s one of the first flowers to bloom in late Winter/Early Spring and its scent fills the air. Some people don’t like it because it gives them hayfever… poor souls. I tried growing Jasmin Sambac, but unfortunately it’s not a very attractive plant, although the flowers have the most gorgeous scent. Do you know the botanical name of the Egyptian Jasmin you use in L’Air du desert marocain? I ordered a bottle from you, which hopefully is heading over to Australia as I type!