Cardamom is the Queen of Spices and has grown lavishly under the tropical canopy on hillsides in the Ghat Mountains on the Malabar Coast of southern India to be harvested by hand and shipped around the world
Cardamom is known as the Queen of Spices …Why? Perhaps it associated with Queens. Cleopatra burned cardamon incense whenever Mark Antony visited. Its been used in perfumery for thousands of years for its sexual powers.
The Editors and Contributors of CaFleureBon weigh in with their choice for Fragrance of the Year for 2012.
In the Song of Solomon, myrrh is clearly an ingredient that stimulates desire not sorrow. The most erotic psalm in the Bible uses many allegorical sexual references to frankincense and myhrr and is believed to be the love story between King Solomon and Makeda, also known as the Queen of Sheba.
Mark Behnke calls out his favorite 25 fragrances of 2012 and 25 more that impressed him, Slumberhouse Pear + Olive his Rising Star of 2012 is our draw
Editor in Chief, Michelyn Camen and Managing Editor, Mark Behnke have such different skin chemistry you would think CaFleureBon Best and Worst lists of 2012 would be wildly different. As you will see they are not.
