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Scented Flowers
Imogen Stone is an exclusive flower and luxury gift delivery service committed to providing the finest flowers. The stunning beauty and innovative designs of our exclusive flowers, make the perfect gift.
Imogen Stone creates beautiful flowers using the freshest high quality seasonal flowers and foliages. Our flowers are characterised by their exquisite seasonal blooms, scented flowers and unique blending of shapes and vibrant colours. The stunning beauty, texture and scent of our exclusive flowers are guaranteed to arouse the senses of the recipient and fill them with pleasure and well-being. Imogen Stone creates beautiful flowers that make an impressive gift suitable for any recipient. Imogen Stone not only creates beautiful flowers that will leave a long lasting impression, they will also boost and elevate any environment; home or office. The nationwide service will enable you to send beautiful scented flowers and luxurious flowers across the UK.
About Scented Flowers
Most people want cut flowers that are high quality, with large flowers, good colour and a long vase life. However, growers want flowers that are disease resistant, and grow strong and profusely. To get all these qualities, some of the scent genes may be bred out in the process. It is an unavoidable side-effect of the molecular structure of flowers. The scent genes are very strongly bound up with those for vase life and flower size - stronger scent often means shorter life or smaller flowers. However, many cut flowers retain a strong and appealing fragrance.
One the first things most of us do when buying a bouquet is smell the flower blooms and so scent is a popular element of cut flowers. Floral scents are also one of the most popular smells; the perfume industry expends a great deal of effort trying to reproduce the authentic fragrance of fresh flowers. It has also been discovered that certain fragrances have an effect on our emotions and wellbeing. Some can act as a sedative, while others are great pick-me-ups. Because of this, plant growers and geneticists have recently started breeding perfume back into cut flowers again.
Flowers and foliage are also beginning to be graded with a scent scale, like a bottle of wine, based on strength of perfume and the type of scent - sweet, spicy, woody, exotic and so forth. In general, white and pale flowers are particularly strongly scented. White flowers contain lots of indole, which is an aphrodisiac; this is the same ingredient as in animal musks.
Oriental lilies are a good example, along with jasmine and narcissi. Freesia are an exception - red and pink varieties have the strongest scent. Bear in mind that a cool room is better for prolonging the life of flowers; but too cool a room may prevent them giving off their full perfume.
The following list of flowers and foliage offers a guide to those with the strongest scent:
| SWEET | bouvardia, carnation [especially "Bagatel", "Gipsy", "Candy White"], freesia [especially "Aladin", "Blue Moon", "Cote D'Azur", "Golden Wave", "Oberon", "White Wings"], hyacinth, lilac (Syringa), lily of the valley (Convallaria), phlox, rose [especially "Extase", "Jacaranda", "Nicole", "Osiana", "Sterling Star"], sweet pea |
| SPICY/PEPPERY | chrysanthemum, florists' broom (Genista), hypericum, pink (Dianthus), stock (Matthiola) |
| AROMATIC | dill (Anethum graveolens), eucalyptus - rub the leaves for the full effect, hypericum, lavender, marjoram, matricaria (Tanacetum), grape hyacinth (Muscari), rosemary |
| HEAVY / EXOTIC | gardenia, oriental lily [especially "Casablanca", "Le Reve", "Stargazer", "Pompeii"], longiflorum lily, narcissus [especially "Cheerfulness", "Paperwhite", "Soleil d'Or", "Ziva"], stephanotis, tuberose (Polianthes) |
| CITRUS | mimosa (Acacia), waxflower (Chamelaucium) - rub the leaves for the full effect |
Imogen Stone incorporates scented flowers and herbs into several bouquets from the range of beautiful hand-tied flowers - the scent compliments the visual splendour and enhances the pleasure for the recipient of such a wonderful gift. To view our current range of beautiful hand-tied flower bouquets please use the menu on the left.
Content kindly provided by FP&A.
If you would like more information on scented flowers then please visit the About Flowers page, A-Z of Flowers page or the Flower and Orchid Care page.