#damascena

[daniela--anna]

Damask rose.

In addition to being beautiful and very fragrant, a precious essential oil can be obtained from the Damask rose.

Damask rose essential oil, benefits for the skin:

Its hydrating action contributes to natural skin elasticity, keeping the skin soft and smooth.

Thanks to its ability to retain moisture, it helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, promoting a youthful and luminous appearance.

It is also refreshing and brightening, helping to reduce stains caused by external factors and age.

(📷PHOTO: Damask rose bush growing spontaneously in a forest in Sweden.

Shot by dear friend Ornella)

#rosadamascena

Rosa damascena.

Oltre che essere bellissima e profumatissima, dalla rosa damascena si può ricavare un prezioso olio essenziale.

Olio essenziale di rosa damascena, benefici per la pelle:

La sua azione idratante contribuisce alla naturale elasticità cutanea, mantenendo la pelle morbida e levigata. Grazie alla sua capacità di trattenere l'umidità, aiuta a ridurre la comparsa di linee sottili e rughe, promuovendo un aspetto giovane e luminoso.

È inoltre rinfrescante e schiarente, contribuendo ad attenuare le macchie causate da fattori esterni e dall'età.

(📷FOTO: cespuglio di rose damascene in crescita spontanea, all'interno di un bosco in Svezia.

Scatto della cara amica Ornella)

#rosadamascena

[damascenayt]

Esther pulled to standing for the first time!!

[eootymade]

[kristo-flowers]

love-in-a-mist

Prints available in my Redbubble and Artheroes shop

[sssnapspics]

nigella damascena

[faguscarolinensis]

Nigella damascena / Love-in-a-Mist at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[drafthearse]

Nigella damascena fruit

[bijoumikhawal]

how to make love in a mist (aka devil in the bush or nigella) fabric flowers

I have. An unfortunate passion for fabric flowers and not much money or experience making them. I could not find a tutorial for these, so I juryrigged something and figured I should share

Materials:

1/2 inch wide blue satin ribbon, double faced highly preferred

A flame (a lighter or candle works, I prefer a candle because I can just light it and be done with it)

Wire, about 18 gauge but honestly you don't need to be specific about it, anything between 16 and 20 should work fine

Sheet foam

Hot glue

Green paint

Paintbrush

A bamboo skewer or other stick

Black fringe, 1 cm wide or just cut it shorter. A dark green fringe would also work well.

Instructions:

Cut your blue ribbon into 9-10cm long strips. You should use about 8-10 of these per flower

Cut an inverted v into both ends and seal with heat.

Cut a 2cm wide strip of foam. Roll it to form a small spiral and cut- you want a little more overlap than a tube, but not much.

Cut 3 small pieces of wire per flower, about 6-4 cm long, and fold loosely in half. Insert them through the foam, close to one end. Bend the pieces to form a bit of a spiral shape. Clip wires shorter as needed. You can tie the other end of the foam with thread if it tries to unfurl.

secure the wire and foam with hot glue. Cover the foam evenly with a first layer of glue, then let harden. Add more hot glue near the unwired end to for a tear drop like shape, imitating the center capsule of the love in a mist flower. In all honestly you could skip some of this, just use glue as reinforcement, and paint the foam directly. Initially I was going to, but I decided to try this.

Make 3 cm long wires with a loop on each end. Glue one end inside the bottom of the foam tube.

Once hardened, paint the capsules green all over and let dry. Use the bottom wire to hold without getting paint all over yourself, and using the loop, string onto a thin stick and balance it between two items so the capsules can dry freely (for example, I balanced mine on the inside of a lampshade)

Once mostly dry, glue the fringe around the bottom of the capsule.

Fold the petals in half at an angle, with a bit of glue in the fold, and then glue the petals to the bottom of the capsule

If you only have single face (instead of both sides being shiny, one is dull) twist the fabric so one side has two shiny petals and one side has two dull petals before you fold and glue them.

[unkn0wnvariable]

Love-in-a-mist Raindrops

Raindrops on the petals of a love-in-a-mist flower in the garden.

[love-for-carnation]

Roses, lilies, an iris and other flowers in an earthenware vase, with a pot of carnations and a butterfly, 1612 Clara Peeters (active 1607–1621, Flemish)

[edgepunk]

not to be depressi on main but we (me n my parents) inherited a garden area w a cottage after my grandparents, and my grandma planted a lot of roses and they've been blooming so much this year, especially the rosa damascena that looks like it's from a fantasy movie + the smell is wonderful. I wish she could see it.

[greaterarts]

I'm attemptin b-weird's October challenge! I have never done any month long art challenges before so this will be interesting.

Day 1 is fav oc! Now, I have over 200 ocs so I have a lot of favs. There were a few of the more obvious choices- who I'm sure I'll end up drawing later, like Rho or Banshee. I went with Killian de Damascena, the Grand Duke of the Great Noble House of Damask Rose.

Killian is really special to me as I first made him during a really bad depressive episode. The only reason I got up (at 3pm, mind) was to write him, and that went on for about a month.

Representing that in a few ways, his plotline has had him go from the exiled heir of his house seething with bitterness and pain to overthrowing his father and learning real compassion and mercy.

Unfortunately, the results of that haven't been ideal. You can ask @tacticalbooty on how well it went when he tried to 'rescue' Malachai. Still, Killian has come a long way and it was really fun to give him his present day look, so to speak.

[damascenayt]

After a bike ride through Henford-on-Bagley, Eleanor decides to tell her mom Octavia about her crush.

[senhorlevamepronto]

[lknapp]

Bild des Tages: Schwarzkümmel ( Nigella damascena)

[charlottebartlett]

Nigella damascena by Kew on Flickr Via Flickr: Nigella damascena