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Penhaligon's Orange Blossom Eau de Toilette Penhaligon's Vanities Hand & Body Cream. Hammam Bouquet – 1872; the company's first scent; Blenheim Bouquet – 1902; the company's longest surviving bespoke fragrance, created for the Duke of Marlborough and named for Blenheim Palace
Norway spruce Pinaceae (pine family) 91 Picea alcoquiana: Alcock's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea asperata: dragon spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea aurantiaca: orange spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea brachytyla: Sargent's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea breweriana: Brewer's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) 92 Picea chihuahuana ...
The blue spruce (Picea pungens), also commonly known as Colorado spruce or Colorado blue spruce, is a species of spruce tree native to North America in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. [4] It is noted for its blue-green colored needles, and has therefore been used as an ornamental tree in many places far beyond its native ...
Juniperus thurifera (Spanish juniper) is a species of juniper native to the mountains of the western Mediterranean region, from southern France (including Corsica) across eastern and central Spain to Morocco and locally in northern Algeria. [3] [4] The name thurifera comes from the Latin turifer, "producer/bearer of incense". [5]
Juniper berries are a spice used in a wide variety of culinary dishes and are best known for the primary flavoring in gin (and responsible for gin's name, which is a shortening of the Dutch word for juniper, jenever). A juniper-based spirit is made by fermenting juniper berries and water to create a "wine" that is then distilled.
Juniper berries are actually modified conifer cones. A juniper berry is the female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers . It is not a true berry but a cone with unusually fleshy and merged scales called a galbulus , which gives it a berry-like appearance.
Frankincense Boswellia carteri tree that produces frankincense, growing inside Biosphere 2. Frankincense, also known as olibanum (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ b ə n ə m /), [1] is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.
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