Before sunrise, the white, star-like blossoms of Egyptian Jasmine Grandiflorum are hand-picked from fields near the Nile Delta. The delicate flowers are laid in palm-branch boxes, allowing them to breathe on their journey to becoming our Jasmine Absolute.

This abstraction of thousands of petals has an unmistakable scent that builds from stem-like and alive, to dense, sensuous and warm – almost carnal.