Kitty Litter Drying Results

What were the results of my recent attempts at drying flowers for potpourri?

Here is my recent post on my attempts to dry lilacs blooming in my yard using an internet hack I found- cat litter.

Well, guess what happened.  It didn't work.  Here are the lilacs after drying- and they have almost no scent.

I don't know what I did wrong but next year, it will be back to the drawing board, so to speak.

Then there was an experiment with lily of the valley which grows underneath one of my hedges.  My mother in law loved that scent.

Here was the lily of the valley in the cat litter.

And the result.  It dried beautifully, but has almost no scent.

I'm not sure what I can do now.  I'll have to do research.  I am hoping still to be able to use these blooms, and I will find a way.

Yoda said (or will say, in a future we are trying to build now) "Do or do not.  There is no try".

Even when it comes to potpourri.

As they said in the old days, "stay tuned".