en Fleur {a plumeria fragrance – the retrograde files}

Description

The plumeria blooms on the branch without apology, without audience, cradled in the warm Hawaiian air as though the tree itself is offering them up to the sky.  Soft and unassuming, the blossoms are like a love letter written not in ink but in petal and perfume, sent without postage, addressed to everyone and no one at all.  The petals are shameless in their luxury; ivory bleeding into the deepest blush at the center, warm and smooth as skin.  The fragrance these blooms send into the world isn’t delicate. It is lush and rolling and deeply, unapologetically alive, moving through the warm afternoon air like a slow hand; five petals unfurling like fingers reaching toward the universe.  

Plumerias precious blooms are short-lived… They’ll wilt by evening.  But this glorious tree, in full bloom, gives her sweetness to the world anyway.