Carolina Jessamine.... jasmine

My Carolina jasmine is blooming or if truth be told it is the jasmine I planted on Vicki’s (my neighbor) fence when she moved it. I knew it would look and smell lovely outside my kitchen window.  The name of this vine  varies from Carolina jessamine, yellow jessamine, trumpet vine, evening trumpet flower etc. etc. Basically all one should know is that it is native to South Carolina and their state flower. This jasmine should not be confused with the decadent star jasmine that was my first introduction to jasmine while living in Spain. Ladies would put it in their hair behind the ear and depending on which ear the intoxicating jasmine was place would determine her availability i.e. single or take. Then men would walk on the opposite side of the square, flowerless.  

Jasmine essential oil is quite expensive as it takes approximately 2,000 lbs. of jasmine flowers to produce 1 lb. of oil. In my flourish perfume I use Jasminum grandiflorum that is so heady that I can only have one whiff of it.