The old-fashioned quince, slowly poaching in spices and sweet syrup, offers a true autumn fragrance.  It is a favourite dessert, but also a delicious start to the day, keeping to the autumn season, with porridge.

But the fragrance is there in the fruit even before the poaching begins.  It has a soft perfume, rose-like, vanilla, citrus and apple, and honey, too.  The quince is a pretty unusual fruit.  So what, other than its perfume, do we know of it?