May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.

This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint. Every morning and afternoon, I drink fresh mint tea sweetened with honey.

This is the smell of June, she wanted to write to Christopher... honeysuckle, green hay, wet linen hung out to dry...

As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, and myrtles also cast their fragrance extravagantly through the gently heated air.