Wondering which sweet peas to pick for the perfect perfume? Just ask Monty Don...
Although the flowers are beautiful, and can keep on being so into autumn, it’s the scent of sweet peas I love most. It has unfathomable depths of gentle sensuousness, and is one of those delicate yet persuasive garden fragrances that’s more enticing and seductive than any man-made perfume. Unfortunately, the choice of fragrant sweet peas is more limited than the scores of visually sumptuous varieties that are all but scent-free, which is a result of the obsessive breeding and showing of sweet peas in the last 100 years. Monty Don reveals the scent of sweet peas is better than any man-ma...