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sorry for the crash!
I read this acount yesterday--it's from the NY Times, January 1877:
"By the way, a great many ladies have developed a passion for chewing violets. They impart a delicious fragrance to the breath, and at a cent apiece are cheap for this purpose. It is interesting to know that many belles have a fancy for thrusting bunches of fresh violets in mysterious places about their corsets, professing to believe that the crushed flowers exhale a more delicately delicious perfume than any of the myriad scented stuffs that they can buy in bottles."
-from Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart-
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