Posted by JohnS on 8/27/2005, 11:50 pm, in reply to "Perfume" If you're inside the house, there is an occasional lavendar fragrence that will almost immediately follow the heavy scent of Cuban cigar smoke. In the 19th century it was not uncommon for ladies of the house to carry small packages of highly fragrant lavender for example in an early attempt at air freshening. The sequence of events inside the house, the cigar smoke followed almost immediately but the lavendar, has been going on for 40 years at least.
I hate to burst the bubble, but that garden can be quite fragrant at times. The type of flowers are selective in terms of ability to perceive the fragrance. So it is quite possible that two people can stand in the garden, one smelling the flowers and the other not. Of course there's always the far easier explanation that the person unable to smell the fragance has a inhibited olfactory sense as well. I say this because I had a similar experience in that same garden years ago.
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