and much of it comes from the nile delta in egypt. >> when the sun sets over the nile delta, millionspon millions of blossoms open up and give off their heady, intensely sweet aroma -- jasmine, the king of perfumes. because nocturnal moths, instead of bees, pollinate the flowers, harvesting takes place at night from 2:00 a.m. till just after dawn. it's back breaking work. >> we pick the flowers every year, always for six months, seven days a week, all season long. >> the sweet fragrance suffuses the nile delta. around 10:00 or so jasmine plantations provide jobs to thousands of pickers, men and women, at harvest time. the more skillful and concentrated they are, the more petals they can put on the scales in the morning. five kilos per night shift are nothing unusual. after the harvest, everything has to go fast on the fakhry farms near the city of tanta. if the flowers aren't process edmeadly, their precious aroma dissipates. at 9:30 in the morning the pickers' strenuous work is done. the women return home in small groups, walking through one of the most fertile stretches of land in t