Lush exuberance fresh blooming cartwheels on a summer lawn violet leaf is the first crisp burst that awakens the senses the introduction to this ode to peony the most beautiful of favourite flowers eternal and inspiring in its achingly elegant nonchalance the flower that manages to be sensual and chaste romantic and modern decadent and pure pale and intense the heart of the matter for matters of the heart and the heart is all peony and peppery bulgarian rose married to white floral