Fragrance

There are plants whose resin, blossoms, leaves or roots have an aphrodisiatic smell. Myrtle, olibanum, myrrh and Madonna Lily are well known. They are directly connected with the love goddess Aphrodite. You can get aromatic plants in market gardens.

Aromatic Plants for the Garden

If you have a garden you can surround yourself with wonderful smells almost the whole year:

• Already in January or February often an ornamental shrub named witch hazel is blooming. The wood smells like heavy sweet honey.
• From March to April violets give off their charming and refreshing smell, hyacinths their heavy and sweet smell.
•  In May lilac and erica (already since April) are blossoming.
• In June and July roses give off their beguiling smell (attention: not all roses smell, but most wild kinds and "old roses").

• From June to August the mock orange is flowering and spreading an odoriferous smell.

Nightshade Family

There are some night shade plants with a compelling smell. Angel trumpet, thorn apple, solandra and belladonna are smelling very well.

It it said that in Latin America once people believed that women get pregnant by the smell of the angel trumpet. The smell shall promote erotic dreams.

Spices

There are some spices which have an excellent smell: galangal, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and clove.