The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
They’re called baby’s breath. These tiny white flowers, no more than half an inch in diameter, are used to enhance the apprearance of bouquets and other floral arrangements. They’re inexpensive and they stay fresh for days, often outliving the more expensive blooms that they enhance.
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Not to mention their scent actually does remind you of a baby’s breath.
They have a scent? Wow, I never really noticed. Probably because the flowers the seeks to accentuate overpower the scent of baby’s breath. Next time, I’ll remove a sprig or two and sniff them.