Hand-picked early in the morning from the small ylang-ylang trees (Cananga odorata), the delicate yellow-golden flowers, which grow only on the islands of La Réunion and the Comoros, on Zanzibar and Nosy Be, are reminiscent of sea anemones, which were often woven into fragrant garlands by the young girls of Tonga.
The intense fragrance of ylang-ylang, ‘the flower of flowers’, with its long, tapering petals and unmistakably sweet, powdery, floral, intense and radiant scent, is elegantly complemented by a bouquet of frangipani, jasmine, orange blossom and tiare blossom.
