wiki-illiam #108: q17

[dubdobdee]

17. Which spirited concoction of which House:

1: is an amaryllid?
2: is papaveraceous?
3: recalls pink-tipped pale hands?
4: recalls a Piedmontese foundation?
5: might have been named Jolly Roger?
6: shares its name with a Breton music festival?
7: might be translated as inconsistency?
8: might be derived from Taro root?
9: suggests a raptor's grasp?
10: is a riding-habit?

Comments

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Searching around makes me feel a) this is BLVDDY HARD and b) that my perfume hunch was correct. Specifically, I've found the answer to #3 (and only #3, despite some effort), and it refers to yet another obscurish POME, which, to be "fair", in song form was apparently "popular until the Second World War"...

I'll quote the start, so you can use the rhyme + your perfumal knowledge to try and get it:

Pale hands I loved beside the _________,
Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,
Before you agonise them in farewell?

Sadly, I could not find any perfumes named FEST NOZ (#6) nor TALON (#9)...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the word missing from the poem is SHALIMAR! and *googles* that is indeed the name of a perfume (House of Guerlain)