Why doesn't my night blooming jasmine fill the air with scent?
sunrisegirl
21 years ago
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Comments (25)here are some perfumes that are true to the flower jasmine: serge lutens a la nuit serge lutens sassasins demeter jasmine pikaki: child lily: serge lutens un lys tuberose: diptyque do son Il Profumo Eclair de Tubereuse Michael by Michael Kors (has a musky background scent, but the but the main note is tuberose & very true to the flower) Annick Goutal Gardenia Passion (smells like tuberose) Estee Lauder Tuberose-Gardenia gardenia: yves rocher desir de gardenia (smells EXACTLY like a fresh cut gardenia and inexpensive) kai perfume oil (smells exactly like a fresh cut gardenia, expensive and even better than yves rocher. get the perfume oil and not the edp spray) Perfumers cannot capture the gardenia scent from the gardenia so they have to create it. Many times they use tuberose plus other things to create a gardenia scent. @ cool plants: you said "a lot of fragrances (Essential Oils)are combinations of scents, an approximation of what a perfumier thinks it smells like." this is true of perfumes but not essential oils. essential oils are not created, but the oil is extracted or distilled from the actual plant, either from the stems, leaves and flowers depending on the purpose....See MoreNight blooming Jasmine doesn't like sun
Comments (24)Night blooming jasmine loves the sun. If you bought the plant from a store that kept it indoors, that means after a certain time the plant grew soft leaves according to the indoor climate. Now that you have it and you want to have in your garden, just put it there. It's going to loose all those soft leaves and grow new ones according to outdoor climate. Don't be scared, all the leaves are going to dry up and die, but it's going to grow new ones according to the "too much sun, wind, rain", stronger and shorter in size. The only thing that the night blooming jasmine doesn't take is too much cold or snow. Eventually it's going to die. If you live somewhere where it never snows or if the temperature never goes bellow 40 degrees F, you're OK. Otherwise you have to take it indoors winter time. Good luck...See Morenight blooming jasmine
Comments (37)randyland: prune close to a joint where the leaves attach. Prune to your own taste to create a plant that is attractive to you. Each cut will produce two branches where there was one, so pruning will "thicken" the plant. Just don't cut far back into the old (hard, light brown, thick) wood. Cestrum blooms on new growth, so your pruning will create new flowers eventually. A good rule of thumb is to cut no more than 1/3 at one time. woodcrafters: cestrum blooms on new wood, so the "growing" will get you some flowers in short order. cestrum need the hot summers and especially hot summer nights to bloom, and a young plant takes a little time to get its feet established. Since you've had a few flowers, I'd say you can expect more any day. They love water and fertilizer. You could try some "bloom booster"-- a fertilizer formulation with a high middle number, eg 10-30-10....See MoreNight Blooming Jasmine
Comments (40)I am in your vicinity and my night jasmine bushes bloom when it is a little warmer than 75 degrees. It blooms and puts out its fragrance at night. Night jasmine was used very much in the Vieux Carre' in New Orleans in the 18th and 19th centuries to mask the smells of the horses and domestic animals (not to mention the outhouses). Some people do not like its sweet smell but I love it. I plant it where the breeze from the south blows the fragrance towards the house. And, if you pick a branch for the indoors, it will begin to smell at dusk also and REALLY give your house a good fragrance. It makes white berries in the fall and you can use them in Christmas wreaths and arrangements. I used the blooming branches in church once for a nighttime wedding and the whole church smelled very "weddingly." Coleen...See Moreourhighlandhome
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