Two videos from L’Occitane on immortelle production in Corsica.
A beautiful tree
Harvesting Douglas fir essential oil in New Zealand, where the tree is an invasive species.
From the flower to the bottle
Guerlain perfumer Thierry Wasser, in Tunisia to talk about neroli.
Nobody was distilling it
[Trygve] Harris first came to Oman in 2006 to source frankincense for her aromatic essential oil store in New York. “But even in Oman, I could only get Somalia oil, not higher-quality Omani oil. Nobody was distilling it for sale back then. Not even Amouage!” she recalled, speaking of Oman’s top perfume company, which specialises in producing luxury frankincense fragrances (a 100ml bottle of Amouage perfume with frankincense base notes costs £283).
In 2011, she relocated to Salalah, Dhofar’s capital, and set up Enfleurage.
— From Oman's Ancient Biblical Scent, a profile of Omani frankincense at BBC Travel. (And see also, part 1 and 2 of our profile of Harris.)
The scent of nirvana
A spot from Firmenich Naturals on oud production in Bangladesh, with perfumer Hamid Merati-Kashani.