Update your scent wardrobe with the fragrance of plum blossoms this spring. With the weather still cold many of us are looking around for the first signs of spring: a daffodil, a bird song and maybe a flowering ume (Japanese plum) tree. In Japan, plum trees blossom between January and March, making them an early bearer of good news that warmer weather is on the horizon. Nowadays, spring hanami (flower viewing) undeniably revolves around sakura (cherry blossom) trees. But, in Japan’s storied Nara period (710-794), when waka (Japanese poems) first began being penned, ume blossoms were the center…