Saffron Flour Universal Flowering

Middle Eastern Rococo. A baby angel saffron, equal parts sugar and spice. Powdered sugar, powdered milk, a cloud of cardamom. I’ve never smelled the pale purple petals of a saffron flower, but this is what I want to imagine it smells like. This doesn’t smell like leathery, flame-coloured saffron stamens. This is an “i’m baby” kind of spice. If I could describe it in one word it’d be “precious.” Shares much with the ginger-milk Poems One Through Twelve, but I found Saffron Flour far sweeter and more powdery. Filed under “bakery air” scents (also see Liis’s Choux Choux).

Mental Snapshot: Ornate tins of Mexican wedding cookies, lined with lace doilies. Porcelain platters of Kakh El Eid, showered in candied rose petals.

tl;dr: cardamom coquette