Spring Notes: Lily of the Valley - Muguet... & Dior {Scented Thoughts} {Fresh Notebook - Green Floral Freshness}
Lily of the valley by BranchDesign
The smell of muguet (Convallaria majalis), or lily of the valley in English which has also retained the French word, especially in the field of perfumery (and it must smell even better and more refined if you say it in French, no doubt), is instantly delightful, delicate and Fresh, with a capital letter. The scent of a little sprig of muguet evokes by its own self without any exertion of the imagination whatsoever the woodland and the cool of the forest. When closing your eyes, the aroma bespeaks of damp grass and sitting sessions ending with clothing moist by an over-application of dew and patterned with water-rings.
When you further smell lily of the valley, you have to realize that it is really a miraculous kind of freshness compared to the sizes of the shapely little bells. If you approach your nose close to the flowers, it suddenly feels as if it had entered halfway inside a refrigerator and next, that your nostrils and the tip of your nose just turned into ice. Those slender blooms are like mini air-conditioners working at the maximum of their power with no perceptible sound of a motor humming. How can something smell so fresh? Isn't it also rather that they create a micro-climate of freshness around them and then send out all the atmospheric cues of re-processed air to our noses?
A lily of the valley smells is this paradox: it smells as fresh and glacial as blue spearmint without smelling minty at all...
Lily of the valleys by Stefan Söderström
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