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A flower so intoxicating that perfumers once banned it from convents for stirring impure thoughts.
means A tall, white-flowered plant grown for its powerfully sweet, heady fragrance, much prized in perfumery.
from The name looks like "tube" plus "rose," and that's exactly the folk reading — but it isn't a rose at all. It comes from the Latin tuberosa, meaning "tuberous" or "swollen," naming the plant's knobby underground tuber, not its blooms. English speakers later heard "rose" in that final syllable and many even pronounce it "tube-rose," a charming mishearing baked right into the word.
- night shift
- Releases its scent strongest after dark
- not a rose
- Related to asparagus, not roses at all
- posthumous bloom
- Keeps emitting fragrance even after being cut
- funeral flower
- Called mistress of the night in Victorian times
- perfume gold
- Thousands of blooms yield mere grams of oil
tuberose perfume grasse — dominant fragrance ingredient from grasse, france, used in luxury perfumes like chanel no. 5 and dior's poison
tuberose mexico cultivation — mexico produces majority of world's tuberose flowers, particularly in michoacán state for cut flower export
tuberose india weddings — essential flower in indian wedding garlands and ceremonies, particularly in tamil nadu and karnataka regions