A bud on the quince tree at our country hut. Culpeper has this to say about quinces -not the blossom though but the fruit -it's even a cure for baldness I see :-) Government and virtues : Old Saturn owns the Tree. Quinces when they are green, help all sorts of fluxes in men or women, and choleric lasks, casting, and whatever needs astriction, more than any way prepared by fire; yet the syrup of the juice, or the conserve, are much conducible, much of the binding quality being consumed by the fire; if a little vinegar be added, it stirs up the languishing appetite, and the stomach given to casting; some spices being added, comforts and strengthens the decaying and fainting spirits, and helps the liver oppressed, that it cannot perfect the digestion, or corrects choler and phlegm. If you would have them purging, put honey to them instead of sugar; and if more laxative, for choler, Rhubarb; for phlegm, Turbith; for watery humours, Scammony; but if more forcible to bind, use the unripe Quinces, with roses and acacia, hypocistis, and some torrified rhubarb. To take the crude juice of Quinces, is held a preservative against the force of deadly poison; for it hat been found most certainly true, that the very smell of a Quince hath taken away all the strength of the poison of white Hellebore. If there be need of any outwardly binding and cooling of hot fluxes, the oil of Quinces, or other medicines that may be made thereof, are very available to anoint the belly or other parts therewith; it likewise strengthens the stomach and belly, and the sinews that are loosened by sharp humours falling on them, and restrains immoderate sweatings. The muscilage taken from the seeds of Quinces, and boiled in a little water, is very good to cool the heat and heal the sore breasts of women. The same, with a little sugar, is good to lenify the harshness and hoarseness of the throat, and roughness of the tongue. The cotton or down of Quinces boiled and applied to plague sores, heals them up: and laid as a plaister, made up with wax, it brings hair to them that are bald, and keeps it from falling, if it be ready to shed.

Nyctanthous (meaning "night-blooming") used to be one of my most popular scents. I'm very brazen in the way I dose the heart notes of this perfume with jasmine, not shying away from the intoxicating and indolic edge that the jasmine blossoms impart. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the beauty of jasmine as a lush vine outside my house has been in full bloom. This is the description for the scent: Pale blossoms of night-blooming jasmine haunt this narcotic blend. When the white buds wither, grounding violet leaf leaves the scent to drift into a reverie on cool, lush grass, beckoned by the soft lullaby of sandalwood and myrrh. Scent Family: White floral Key Notes: Australian sandalwood, Omani myrrh, jasmine sambac and grandiflorum, violet leaf, and cypress.