. >> hussein fakhry and his wife cherifa now produce 80 different plant essences from a for acacia to for yarrow. their prod ubblingts are organic and they sell the top quality aromatics to the most demanding perfume labels. good instincts are essential to this business. they take care of their workers. in a small school the pickers' children receive free tuition because cherifa says the quality in state schools is abysmal. >> no other plant is as del kate as jasmine. after the tiny blossoms are weighed they have to be process edmeadly. the oils are washed out with an organic solvent in huge steel barrels. the solution is filtered and distilled to produce a waxy mass called concrete. the more fragrant compounds are extracted from that into ethanol, which evaporates, leaving the final product, known as absolute. >> this material is what i'm going to be taking in here. and i will proceed by evaporating the ethanol, which i will collect over here for further use, and at the bottom i'm going to be collecting the absolute. this would be about five kilos of absolute, which corresponds to ab