Flowers may be hard to come by this Valentine’s Day, but rose lovers have a viable option. TOMFORD has launched a trio of rose-based scents that make an able stand-in.
The Greek god Zephyrus loved Flora so much that he changed himself into a rose, because she had no interest in any other flowers.Hindu legends tell of the goddess Lakshmi and wife of Vishnu, who was created out of 1,008 rose petals and 108 roses. Since then, Hindus have linked the flower with love.The rose is known to be about 55 million years old, according to fossil evidence. They have been cultivated in China for over 5,000 years.
To insure that Marc Antony would remember her, Cleopatra ordered that the sails of her barge be dipped in rose water to perfume the wafting sea breezes.King Henry VII of England officially declared St. Valentine’s Day a holiday in 1537.In 19th-century Victorian England, chaste lovers used floriography, the language of flowers, to send covert messages to each other with small bouquets known as nosegays.
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