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Everyday plants that emit the most pleasing perfumes
06.08.2023 - 04:15 / irishtimes.com / Fionnuala Fallon
As someone both blessed and cursed with a keen sense of smell, I sometimes wonder what it would be like to lose it. To never again inhale, for example, the sweetness of a rose. To be forced to go without the spicy, spring perfume of witch-hazel, or the fresh-earth scent of newly dug potatoes, or the sharp, vegetal tang of tomato plants softly baking in a hot glasshouse in high summer.
Indeed it’s the aromatic foliage of some species of plants – which are every bit as scent-loaded as but far longer-lasting than their floral counterparts – that I think I’d miss most.
Put aside, for example, the fact that the scent of mint is proven to boost our ability to concentrate, as well as to bolster memory function, ease a headache and soothe a sore throat. Instead, imagine not being able to enjoy the sensory pleasure that comes from sucking its clean fresh perfume deep into your nose and lungs. Likewise, imagine a world without the almost camphorous whiff of rosemary. Or the woody scent of sage. Or the herbal, slightly floral tang of bay, marjoram or thyme.
[ Your gardening questions answered: What’s wrong with my magnolia? ]
Proving the old adage that not all books should be judged by their cover, it’s intriguing that some of the most ordinary-looking species of plants have the most intensely perfumed foliage. Crush just one tiny leaf of the innocuous-looking lemon verbena (Aloysia citriodora) between your fingers, for example, and you’ll be instantly transported back to your childhood and the sugary, citrusy, sticky pleasure of a bag of lemon bonbons.
Many of the scented-leaf pelargoniums share that same magic power, their oh-so-ordinary appearance belying the fact that, depending on the particular variety, their foliage can
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