Spring Notes: Lily of the Valley - Muguet... & Christian 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, is instantly delightful, delicate and fresh, with a capital letter. The scent of a sprig of muguet evokes without much effort of the imagination the woodland and the cool of the forest. If you concentrate and smell and close your eyes, the scent conjures up damp grass and sitting-sessions ending with your clothes wet with the morning dew and patterned with water-rings.
When you smell further, you realize that the freshness is extraordinary compared to the sizes of the shapely little bells. If you approach your nose close to the flowers themselves, it suddenly feels as if you had entered halfway inside a refrigerator and next, that your nostrils and the tip of your nose just turned into an ice cube. The delicate mini bell-hats have huge air-conditioning power but it is not accompanied by any perceptible sound of a motor humming. How can something so tiny smell so fresh?...
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