05/23/2025

ClaireV
833 Reviews

ClaireV
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A peach that is in rude health
Has anyone here experienced the back-handed compliment that is “You seem to be in rude health!”, a phrase that expertly merges praise for your general glowiness with the suggestion that you are a bit fat? Yeah, well, Osmanthus Soliflore seems to be in really rude health. It is a big, glowy, juicy-lucy peach so generously upholstered that it threatens to burst at the seams if you touch it. Greasy sweat bubbles of peach juice grow and pop, spurting rivers of hot peach syrup down the sides. A dash of something harsh and prickly – Jif Lemon – gives the peach a welcome little lift. I dropped a vial of this behind a bookcase in my office a few years ago, and it is the gift that keeps on giving. Because it is clearly more James and the Giant Peach than osmanthus, Osmanthus Soliflore probably leans on the use of aldehyde C14 (undecalactone) rather than osmanthus absolute, but honestly, who the heck cares? It smells amazing.