Chris Smart, Woburn head keeper, said they will be used to "make a fragrant and skin-friendly bedding material for our southern white rhino herd".
Male euglossine bees are attracted to, and collect, fragrant chemicals produced by rotting organic material, flowers, and other plant parts [26], [27].
While many fragrance molecules (eg, simple monoterpenes) are abundant in readily renewable plant materials, some highly valuable fragrant terpenoids (eg, santalols, ambroxides) are rare in nature and interesting targets for synthetic biology.
(In most modern perfumes, however, the rare and fragrant substance has largely been replaced by synthetic materials).
This impulse for extreme tactility is evocative of Anselm Kiefer with his straw, Walter de Maria with his patches of fragrant earth, and Andy Goldsworthy with his aesthetic interpretations and direct material appropriations of Nature.
For rice, no certified reference material was available, so Basmati rice and conventional (non-fragrant) rice were purchased at a local biological food store.
Some of the gatherers actually use edible materials: the shellacked anchovies in Tracy Heneberger's "Moon"; the herbs and spices in Helen Altman's fragrant "Spice Skulls".
The fragrant white hybrid musk Darlow's Enigma has soft, dull leaves, which seem to be especially attractive as building material.
Amid the market's iron stalls fragrant with pork sausage and aged Parmesan, Mr. Ecko sent out a series of fancied-up slacker clothes in materials like cashmere, heathered flannel and houndstooth printed corduroy.
