clouds of perfume

fragrant flowers
a crown of butterflies
perfumed with incense

My image is a picture I took in our summer greenhouse in June:
Phlox diverticulata "Clouds of Pefume": the sweetest scented phlox that I know.

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juniper turns into genever which means gin in Dutch and can be old or young according to its incubation time.
I grew up in a jenever atmosphere even though I never touched the stuff myself.
Seeing the devastating effects of it close-up, I never even dared breathe the fumes off my father's face for fear of turning into an addict myself. Luckily I seem to be missing the gene for addiction [ other than maybe the one for chocolate ].

For the very reason of fearful memories I never took a photograph of the bush that produced juniper berries. So now here a drawing from memory, which doesn't quite seem to have the powerful effect that a ruthlessly accurate photographic image has.

I'm rambling here.

I chose the flowers of the phlox which also have a terrific perfume and are much safer to sniff even though you can't drink them as an extract or flavouring.

juniper berries
wildly intoxicating
flavouring for gin