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  • In a bouquet of mixed roses, most people can distinguish at a glance the delicacy of a tea rose from the voluptuousness of a cabbage rose, but how many could so readily differentiate between the tea rose's scent of freshly harvested tea and the spicy, honeylike, rich floral scent of the cabbage?

    Mandy Aftel (2011). “Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume”, p.15, North Point Press