A sensual enticement of white gardenias, tuberose, night blooming jasmine, and vanilla orchid.

"Alas! alas! this wasted Night
With all its Jasmin-scented air,
Its thousand stars, serenely bright!
I lie alone, and long for you,
Long for your Champa-scented hair,
Your tranquil eyes of twilight hue;

Long for the close-curved, delicate lips
—Their sinuous sweetness laid on mine—
Here, where the slender fountain drips,
Here, where the yellow roses glow,
Pale in the tender silver shine
The stars across the garden throw."

- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (aka Laurence Hope), 1901


Art: Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, c. 1886