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The best houseplants to clean the air in your home, as recommended by NASA

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The best Houseplants To Clean The Air At Home

Here are two interesting articles in this context:

  • “The best houseplants to clean the air in your home”, as recommended by NASA and an overview of the study on Wikipedia, which shows specifically which plants clean which pollutants from the air in your home.
  • “17 Amazing Houseplants that Clean the Air” by Tips Bulletin.

Here are a few examples of such ‘air cleaning’ plants:

  • Chrysanthemum morifolium (Florist’s chrysanthemum)
  • Spathiphyllum ‘Mauna Loa’ (Peace lily)
  • Phaleanopsis (Moth orchids)
  • Dracena Marginata (Red-edged dracaena)
  • Epipremnum Auerum
  • Monstera Deliciosa
  • Ficus Elastica
  • Ficus Benjamina
  • Boston Fern

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Royal Ascot Ladies Day – Perfume Inspired Hats

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Royal Ascot Ladies Day

Royal Ascot is a major event on the Britain’s social calendar and on Ladies Day it is the visitors who are the stars.

click here to go to the website of Royal Ascot

This year, the team at PAIRFUM have collected a few of the outstanding ‘perfumery’ or ‘floristry’ inspired hats.

Amongst these fabulous hats, we have chosen the best perfumery inspired hat of 2016.

Here is our winner:

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British Flower Week – Day Five – Alstromeria

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British Flower Week

British Alstromeria

The final flower of the day during the British Flower Week 2016, is the British-grown Alstroemeria.

A flower that is long-lasting, colourful and which is not too difficult to grow in English gardens.

Alstroemeria is ready for a renaissance !

Here are links to blog posts with further information during the British Flower Week website:

Day Five – About British Alstroemeria

Click here to go to the article.

Day Five – Designs using British Alstroemeria by Rob Van Helden Floral Design

Click here to go to the article.

For anybody looking for inspiration on how to grow Alstromeria in their garden, here is a link to an interesting article:

Click here to go to the article.

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British Flower Week – Day Four – Foliage

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British Flower Week

British Foliage

Foliage is often overlooked when big the blooms of roses and peonies dazzles us with their colour & shape. However, Florists overlook it at their peril! Foliage will always be the backbone or backdrop of any stunning bouquet, giving it a background framework, structure, movement and texture.

Foliage does not have to boring and can be selected from branches of beech, photinia, white leaf, willow, eucalyptus birch or euonymus.

‘Herbs’ can also be used to adds interest and fragrance to a bouquet through the inclusion of mint, oregano, sage, lavender or rosemary.

‘Stems’ offer another source of inspiration to the florist and these are some examples: cow parsley, breezy grasses and stems of trailing jasmine.

 

Here are links to blog posts with further information during the British Flower Week website:

Day Four – About British Foliage

click here to go to the article

Day Four – Designs by The Flower Appreciation Society

click here to go to the article

 

For anybody looking for inspiration on how to use Foliage, here is a link to an article:

 British Flowers Week: the 20 most creative florists

click here to go to the article

 

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British Flower Week – Day Three – Astrantia

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British Flower Week

British Astrantia

The two common names for the British Astrantia are ‘Hattie’s pincushion’ and ‘masterwort’. This begs the question “who was Hattie ?” and “how did Astrantias get into her pincushions ?”

Here are two links to the British Flowers Week website and the posts about Astrantia.

Day Three – About British Astrantia

click here to go to the article

Day Three – Designs using British Astrantia by Amanda Austin Flowers

click here to go to the article

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British Flower Week – Day Two – Orlaya Grandiflora

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British Flower Week

British Orlaya Grandiflora

Also known as ‘lace flower’, Orlaya Grandiflora is a flower that not only stands out because of its ‘grandios’ name.

Here are two links with more information about Orlaya Grandiflora:

Day Two – About British Orlaya Grandiflora

click here to go to the article

Day Two – Designs using British Orlaya Grandiflora by Petalon

click here to go to the article

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British Flower Week – Day One – Oriental Lily

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British Flower Week

The British Oriental Lily

Today marks the start of British Flower Week! A time to celebrate the nation’s flower industry and all the British flowers we love. Day One marks the celebration of the Oriental Lily.

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At present, the vast majority of flowers bought on our high-streets are from large-scale commercial growers abroad.

New Covent Garden Flower Market, launched the campaign to highlight British flowers instead.

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This annual celebration of seasonal, locally-grown flowers and foliage is uniting the UK’s flower industry and to sparking interest in where our flowers come from.

During the week the focus will be on the best of British cut flowers and the very best independent British florists to show just what British flowers are made of!

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Right now, British cut flowers are enjoying a resurgence in demand. Just as interest in locally-grown food has grown, people’s interest is resurgent in locally-grown, freshly cut flowers.

Up until the 1970s, the only flowers you would ever see in the Flower Markets and nurseries came from flower farmers across Britain. Today, the vast majority of flowers in your high street flower shop will have been grown by large scale commercial growers in Holland, South America and Africa and routed through the Dutch auctions.

Flowers Should Be Fragrant !

Here at PAIRFUM, we fully support the British Flower Industry, as we believe in locally produced goods.

Equally, as perfumers we continuously regret seeing flowers being grown for the beauty at the expense of their fragrance.

Lillies are a prime example of how wonderfully scented a floral bouquet can be.

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External Links

British Flowers Week is bringing British cut flowers back.

Here is the link to the website set up of this special week. Enjoy browsing the site:

click here to go to the site

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Day One – About the British Oriental Lily

click here to go to the article

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Day One – Designs using British Oriental Lilies by The Dorchester:

click here to go to the article

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Summery Fragrances To Feel The Beach

Summery Fragrances To Feel The Beach

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Reach For The Beach

If you can’t wait to go on holidays, then hold out no longer and splash out on summer fragrances to feel the beach instantly.

Here is an article with a few suggestions

Click to go to the beach !

Our favourites are these two:

  • Tom Ford Soleil Blanc Eau de Parfum
  • Bobbi Brown Beach Eau de Parfum

Bobbi Brown Beach

BOBBI BROWN BEACH (2002)

gender: WOMAN
olfactory group: ORIENTAL – VANILLA

OLFACTORY PYRAMID
Top Notes : Jasmine, Mandarin
Heart Notes : Carnation
Base Notes : Wood, Neroli

Tom Ford Soleil Blanc (2016)

gender: WOMAN
olfactory group: ORIENTAL

OLFACTORY PYRAMID
Top Notes : Bergamot, Cardamom, Pink Pepper
Heart Notes : Ylang Ylang, Jasmine, Tuberose
Base Notes : Coconut, Tonka Bean, Amber

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Top 10 World’s Worst Smells Corpse Flower

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Which of these have you tried ?

Here at PAIRFUM we always look to create to the most beautifully perfumery products.

However, it is one of the paradoxes of a beautiful fragrance that it may need to contain some ingredients which by themselves are unpleasant but when added to the creation lend it a depth or warmth that is quite surprising.

Hence, as perfumers we are literally experience daily Aristotle’s famous quote:

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

This led us to the question:

What are the Top 10 world’s worst smells ?

Here is an article which a few suggestions.

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The 3 x images you see in this post are of the ‘corpse flower’, probably the world’s worst smelling flower.

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