Sweet scented

Some of the narcissus are sweet scented, and as more and more reach the peak of their bloom it is difficult to choose between the distinguished new varieties.

Vases of red glass held freesias, possibly the sweetest scented of all flowers, on two-foot stems.

The new kid on the block is fennel pollen, an expensive extract from early blooming wild fennel plants. It is sweet scented and pungent; but you don’t have to pay top dollar, all you have to do is go walking in the hills above Laguna in about a month and collect.