Potpourri or potpourri means a mix of dried flowers, herbs, or spices, used to give a pleasant scent--
She is saving the rose petals to make a potpourri.
Pine needles make a nice addition to potpourri.
Potpourri may mean a pleasant mixture, especially of literary or musical pieces--
We offer a musical potpourri for your listening pleasure.
Popery or popery is an old-fashioned term for the Roman Catholic Church, or its doctrines or ceremonies, most commonly used in a disparaging way--
He disapproves of images and statues, as they are popery, and heretical.
All this talk of saints and miracles smacks of popery, and should be forbidden!
Now that you know that, you can say--
"He dislikes potpourri; he says it seems like incense, and so it's a form of popery."
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