Pot pourri.
I have just looked in my room and my mum has put out a pot of pot pourri.
Which got me thinking.
Its just dead plants right? Dead, dried, fragrant plants?
So basically, some idiot once bought his girlfriend some flowers for her birthday and by the time he got round to giving them to her - they had died. So he sprayed them with perfume and said 'They are supposed to be like that..'
She, unwittingly, believed him and now we have a habit of putting dead crustations of plants in our homes and calling them 'decorative'
This is, I believe, the origins of the dreaded pot pourri.
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Absolutely Right......!
ReplyDeletePot-Pourri.....From the French....'To Rot'.
Horrid stuff...What ever you do, don't keep it longer than a month. It starts go'in off...And...
Phew...! :0).
I use those Diffuser Sets....Their great, safer than candles, and last up to three months. Different perfumes to, they range from about £5 upwards, good value....!
mmmmmmM! Sniff!.....Sniff!.....! :).