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  • Capturing the sublime and delicate essence of fresh lilac is near to impossible when using only natural materials, and Lilac is more often replicated in the lab with synthetic aroma chemicals.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • Mystic Lilac may not replicate lilac like most synthetics do which usually I find overwhelmingly heady and powdery to the point of being cloying, despite their lilac loveliness, but it does create a Lilac impression throughout its existence.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • Lilac is the only team of its kind and we are determined to keep going and to grow.

    Outstanding team: 'they will influence policy' June Caldwell 2010

  • This soft bag includes an inside zipper pocket, two open pockets, a top snap closure and comes in Lilac Black or Lilac Sienna.

    Designer Amy Hall Brings Her Unique Vision To AmyKathryn Handbags 2007

  • See, this beautiful white one with just a tiny speck of yellow in the middle I called my Lilac Lady. "

    The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

  • I believe this is a distant relative of what is called Lilac in the U.S.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Kalyn Denny 2007

  • I believe this is a distant relative of what is called Lilac in the U.S.

    Counting Down to Two Years: Weekend Herb Blogging Recap Kalyn Denny 2007

  • In those days a girl such as Lilac would hope to be taken into domestic service and trained up to such high levels as house-keeper or cook.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • If I have to spend another five years—let alone the rest of my life—cooped up in a subdivision called Lilac Lakes, cooking combinations of the six foods you will actually eat and making weekly pilgrimages to Home Depot to buy paint in every conceivable shade of beige, I’m going to make that chick in Mr. Rochester’s attic look like Marianne Willamson.

    Fashionably Late Beth Kendrick 2005

  • If I have to spend another five years—let alone the rest of my life—cooped up in a subdivision called Lilac Lakes, cooking combinations of the six foods you will actually eat and making weekly pilgrimages to Home Depot to buy paint in every conceivable shade of beige, I’m going to make that chick in Mr. Rochester’s attic look like Marianne Willamson.

    Fashionably Late Beth Kendrick 2005

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