A bouquet of sampaguita (Arabian jasmine)
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
June 9, 2016 6:22am CST
This morning, the fragrance of this national flower of my country was so overwhelming that I took the cutter of my sister from the drawer and started cutting some of these flowers from the bushes.
Before distributing these flowers in the altar and at my parents’ photos, I decided to take a picture. So here it is - a bouquet of the white flowers named sampaguita. I think a perfume is made from these flowers.
As you can see in the picture, it was 6:15AM when I brought inside the house, these flowers. The smell is making our house so fragrant, overpowering the pees of these dogs.
Do you like the smell of this flower? I better check on Google what the name of this flower is, and it is named Arabian Jasmine
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21 responses
@sofssu (23662)
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10 Jun 16
@ridingbet They are so beautiful. I wish they didn't have such a strong scent.. I always end up with a headache.
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@cacay1 (83465)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet Never having this flower at home though its our national flower , flower Rizal's mother liked so much.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
oh, sorry then. but how these flowers appear is also wondeful to be put in a vase, never mind the fragrance
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
So that's where Sampaguita Pictures came from :)
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
oh, Sampaguita pictures is now gone, my friend.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@sunrisefan yes of course i know that. how about Lea productions, Tagalog Ilang-Ilang productions, premiere, and also FPJ, do you recall them as well?
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet Yes. That's the mother studio of Susan Roces and other oldie actors and actresses, right?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
these flowers were planted by the green thumb of my late mother, and the bush is blooming many flowers of sampaguita. i hope you can buy a twig of this flower; it needs little care like watering it.
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet I love the fresh fragrant smell of flowers. It's when they turn it into perfume that it can be really overpowering.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@just4him that is true. now, regarding perfumes, i just like the mild sweet-scented perfumes.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
it is s fragrant flower, my friend, and you won't get annoyed with ots smell because it is sweet. there are some flowers that have strong smell and i get annoyed with these.
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
9 Jun 16
Yes, I love the smell of this flower. Last year, we bought a small sampaguita plant and I planted it on a pot. The petals are not like those on the picture. Ours only has single petals.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
so, what you have is the single-petaled sampaguita, right? their fragrance is not like these ones we have, and i think those single-petaled are called jasmine?
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet oh? I didn't know that. I thought it's still sampaguita...
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet oh, okay. Hmmm I hope I can have that variety like yours... I also like rosal...
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
11 Jun 16
yes, but don't you have the garden now?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
@MGjhaud then you can buy leis sold by these children and put them in your altar
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet I din't notice . I will try to take a look next time i buy .
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
it does, and so are the flowers they sell multi-petaled? single petaled sampaguita flowers have a mild scent.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
@Shavkat yes it is spooky. incidentally, today is also the 7th year since i brought my mother o the hospital. she left us on the 13th of June 2009. and yes, when we smell a lit-candle and roses, her spirit might be here in our house
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@Shavkat (139893)
• Philippines
13 Jun 16
@ridingbet There are some big butterflies coming in and out of the house. I know my father is at peace. Perhaps he randomly visits us.
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet . . Of course, I love the fragrance of sampaguita flowers. But one special flower (me amoy) is my favorite. I die if that flower gets instinct! hehehe
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
i wonder where that flower you mean is found? Sierra Madre mountain range? 
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
i agree. when you see a flower far from you, you can virtually smell its fragrance
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
it is so fragrant, it can be smelled in a small room with a bunch like the one i posted here
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
10 Jun 16
@ridingbet Yes. Our niño likes it.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
thank you my friend. they are immaculate white, but i also like your garden with those flowers with different colors
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
sampaguita i think is a variety of jasmine flowers. these are multi-petaled and they smell so good.
@josie_ (10034)
• Philippines
9 Jun 16
When I still live in Manila, Street children would rush to cars stop by the red traffic signal light to sell their Sampaguita leis. I was quite young then, It was during the late 1960's. Most of the time my father would buy some for the altar at home.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
some children also sell sampaguita, the single-petaled, as garlands for the altar, and we tell them that we have a bush of these flowers.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
9 Jun 16
@ridingbet Thank you for the beautiful picture. We have the flower here too and I had two in my garden. We also wear it in our hair.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
10 Jun 16
it is so fragrant that indeed, it is good to clip this in our hair. we will look and smell fragrant too.
