Venus

Night-Flowering Tuberose (Starflower) Under A Full Moon in Anya’s Garden

So I got sent these gorgeous scent samples from Anya of Anya’s Garden Perfumes.  She makes them all from her garden in Miami, Florida & they’re divine. She has the most brilliant astro-signature for a perfumier:  Sun, Venus and Neptune in Libra, all Rising.

“…One reasoning behind the concepts of StarFlower and MoonDance, and it’s a big reasoning, is that white flowers, typically those that look like stars, always bloom on the Full Moon. The gravitational and tidal pulls are the stimulus, I suppose. If you’re in a garden at night, the magic of the scent draws you in, and even if you squint your eyes, you can still see the white flowers, since they’re the only color flowers that are visible at night. under a bower of jasmine, next to the tuberose bed, it’s as if the stars fell out of the sky – and brought their fragrance to earth.

Cool, yin-type scents are associated with the moon, and the mint opening note of MoonDance leads you down a cool, inward-looking path, with tender rose and chamomile. StarFlower is more fiery, and meant for nighttime wear in the winter, quite yang and sultry and carnal in the drydown. The flower that most looks like a star is the single flowered Tuberose, so that was the muse for both perfumes….”

The Aztecs called it Bone Flower and she was sacred to their Venus. Ancient Hindu peeps knew it as Night Mistress and in many cultures it is considered a powerful aphrodisiac. Tuberose keeps producing scent, even after it is picked, making it the main component of Hawaiian leis. Some say that inhaling the oil of Tuberose improves one’s capacity for emotional depth & the most common symbolism of it is “dangerous pleasures.”