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  • Even today, the most sophisticated homes can still be swamped in tea-rose wallpaper, Blue Willow china and Laura Ashley curtains.

    Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

  • It bounced to its feet and took off in a straight line at top speed, chirping loudly as it went into the tea-rose bush.

    Almost Gone Sean Craven 2009

  • It bounced to its feet and took off in a straight line at top speed, chirping loudly as it went into the tea-rose bush.

    Archive 2009-09-27 Sean Craven 2009

  • Its smell, I have said, is that of newly mown hay, and is prized like that of the tea-rose.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • From this point on, the gum had such an intensely artificial tea-rose aroma to it that I found it quite obnoxious but very curious.

    Perfume(ing) Bubble Gum & Too-Sweet Sour Plum Ayala Sender 2008

  • "It would be fun to read it, even if I did have to go back to page 47 and refresh my memory about exactly what time the second gardener potted the prize-winning tea-rose begonia."

    "The Simple Art of Murder" by Raymond Chandler Dark Worlds Club 2008

  • From this point on, the gum had such an intensely artificial tea-rose aroma to it that I found it quite obnoxious but very curious.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • It's as if I accidentally touched one of those tea-rose fragrance oils and licked my finger right after.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • It's as if I accidentally touched one of those tea-rose fragrance oils and licked my finger right after.

    Perfume(ing) Bubble Gum & Too-Sweet Sour Plum Ayala Sender 2008

  • Stephen Arctander describes champaca as similar to guiacwood a waxy, smoky, tea-rose like wood from South America, yet at the same time mentniones that it is also used to adulterate champaca and therefore is not a very good way to describe champaca… I feel that until champaca is experienced, it is really difficult to describe it or imagine it.

    Champaca Flowers vs. Nag Champa Incense Ayala Sender 2007

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