White Lotus Aromatics Newsletter - Neroli of Grasse
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Ambrosial Neroli Perfume
In creating Ambrosial Neroli Perfume I have tried to capture the feeling of the soft morning air, wafting in through your window, warm, delicate, sweet,laden with the intoxicating fragrance of orange trees in bloom.
The bitter orange tree offers us a sweet bounty of various essences in the form of the distilled essential oil of neroli blossoms and the extracted absolutes of the flowers and the water distilled from the flowers. These have been incorporated into the formula to capture the enchanting aroma of the glowing sun warmed grove filled with radiant blossoms of the "golden apples of the sun".
He lay one morning on his couch meditating on this inexplicable matter. The window of his chamber was open to admit the soft morning breeze, which came laden with the perfume of orange blossoms from the valley of the Darro. The voice of the nightingale was faintly heard, still chanting the wonted theme.
The Alhambra /Washington Irving
Have you ever slept, my friend, in a grove of orange trees in flower? The air that one inhales with delight is a quintessence of perfumes. The strong yet sweet odor, delicious as some dainty, seems to blend with our being, to saturate us, to intoxicate us, to enervate us, to plunge us into a sleepy, dreamy torpor. As though it were an opium prepared by the hands of fairies and not by those of druggists.
Short Stories / Guy de Maupassant
The principal object of this prospect, however, is the Golden Tower, where the beams of the setting sun seem to be concentrated as in a focus, so that it appears built of pure gold, and probably from that circumstance received the name which it now bears. Cold, cold must the heart be which can remain insensible to the beauties of this magic scene, to do justice to which the pencil of Claude himself were barely equal. Often have I shed tears of rapture whilst I beheld it, and listened to the thrush and the nightingale piping forth their melodious songs in the woods, and inhaled the breeze laden with the perfume of the thousand orange gardens of Seville.
The Bible in Spain /George Borrow
The mocking-bird in the
fragrant orange grove sends out his night song, and blends it
with the cricket's chirp, as the blossoms of orange and magnolia
mingle their perfume with the earthy smell of a summer rain just
blown over.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
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