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the perfume world's secret weapon, hiding in plain sight inside every bottle of Chanel No. 5.
means Ylang (usually ylang-ylang) is a tropical tree whose intensely sweet, heady flowers yield an essential oil prized in perfumery.
from From Tagalog 'ilang-ilang,' the Philippine name for the tree (Cananga odorata). The doubling is a Filipino way of intensifying — so the word itself murmurs 'flower of flowers' or 'wild' — and it sailed into English in the 19th century as the oil became a staple of the perfumer's bench.
- name origin
- Tagalog for flower of flowers
- harvest
- picked before dawn for peak fragrance
- grading
- distilled in stages, finest fraction comes first
- native turf
- thrives across Madagascar and the Comoros
- dual life
- smells sweet, used in aromatherapy for calm
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ylang ylang tree — cananga odorata, native to philippines and indonesia, produces intensely fragrant flowers used in perfumery since the 1800s