"Everyone brought one bottle, so that's eight thousand three hundred and twenty-three bottles of perfume essences!"

Cultivation of flowers for their perfume essence, which had begun in the 14th century, grew into a major industry in the south of France.

Vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence) and cloves.

This place has remained firmly in '50s mold, with its shelves of old-fashioned bottles containing perfume essences.

Natural resources are in short supply and the islands' chief exports - vanilla, cloves and perfume essence - are prone to price fluctuations.

Similarly, industrial materials exports, which encompass everything from perfume essences to paper, barely fell, slipping $60 million.

Flowers of the plant provide the perfume essence from which the biologically important sesquiterpenoid farnesol is named.

Plantations engage a large proportion of the population in producing the islands' major cash crops for export: vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, and copra.

Principal industries are those that involve processing cash crops for export: preparing vanilla and distilling ylang-ylang into perfume essence.

Agriculture - products: vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra, coconuts, bananas, cassava (tapioca)