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HIN scents like lilac are far more suitable for women of the Saxon type, and it is best to leave carnation, musk, and tuberose to the languorous beauties of the harem.’ Such a sentence is not one that might be expected from a 1922 edition of the , but it does nicely encapsulate the irredeemably colourful reputation of the tuberose. By contrast, the flower from which the fragrance is collected is innocence itself, the virginal white of its