Have you noticed that when you buy fresh cut flowers either from your local grocery store or flower shop, the blooms just don’t really smell all that floral? They smell more like “fresh” – like leafy vegetables – but not quite like perfume and soaps that are actually floral scented.
What’s going on? Well, as growers continue to cross and breed and create hardier cut flowers that survive the long, arduous journey from farm to plane to auction to wholesaler and finally to shop and customer, we begin to substitute fragrance with longevity. We are left with gorgeous and long-lasting blooms that come in new and interesting colors but without much fragrance. Which might be a good thing for some people, but sometimes scents and fragrances can really set the mood and complete the memories of your wedding day. And isn’t it natural to just stick your nose into your bouquet to smell the flowers?
Well, lucky for us there are still many flowers with lovely scents that our human noses can enjoy! Some pretty strong that they may actually bother some people (lilies, baby’s breath), and some might not be all that pretty in smell (narcissus, poppy), and some smell like you’ve walked into a kitchen (dill, allium). Some really beautifully smelling flowers include perfect for bouquets include freesia, lilacs, sweet peas, gardenias, tuberoses, stock, and some roses have a lovely faint scent. Most cut orchids do not have a scent, but cymbidium orchids can smell quite pretty. Chocolate cosmos, already stunning in a dark velvety brown, also smells just like their namesake – chocolate! So request some of these flowers for your wedding décor for a memorable and deliciously fragrant day!
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