It shortly after sunrise in the egyptian oil delta droplets of fungal hardening of the pumps the workers are harvesting with a delicate touch it smells like a lemon plantation. Hussain factory owns this very special agricultural business its not about fruit or veggies its purely about the scent of the leaves on the blossoms he produces the highest quality robers. Many of these essences end up at the sophisticated creation of the big purview houses of the world in the United States asia or in france. That. Is being harvested here. But not sweet as we would find them in so lots of time together with mozzarella and tomatoes this is where i agree hes quite something lemon basil full of essential oils. Like. Donna xing about that. Is is this. Lemon verbena flavor to it so. If it smells citrusy lemon but its a basal its entirely in basilica. And whats interesting with this is we we propose it to the industry as a an ersatz replacer to a verb a know which is not which is not allowed by ye frog in fine fragrance. Honey tank isnt exactly the strong point of the factory farms but its not needed. Because when harvesting precious essences its all about delicate time intensive manual labor when harvesting the powerfully fragrant tuberose flowers for instance. Weeding hes also a long winded procedure the takes a dozen men almost all day they have to exercise the can to avoid damaging the template you build stalks. But the workers have hours flying trusting and especially hungry helpers who settle right next to the. Image that youre catching over here with the naive grits that we call in arabic a subject for a laugh which means the friend of the farmer just because. They Work Together nicely or it is eating the the bugs behind the the weeding that the farmer is doing is basically a. Statement of fact that. We have a nice balance taking place. The farm produces 80 different essences from sweet gums to lemon grass one flood caused hussein a headache for 4 years before it finally flourished he is just heading through the see your rose bush is the flower in the summer. The bruise the grass these was the be most of you know perhaps at sunset you could see me screaming at my roses and trying to get the message across but. Finally you discovered that i mean things come through patience rather than especially with nature rather than screaming and getting mad but of course when youre on the other side then things start to work then its you get to be quite proud. You know to see a project like that develop with a rose that has never seen egypt before. Bruises on his hobby but just as his business the queen of sense only reveals himself when the sunday puns are roma is intense its exceptional there is no other botanical that pressures us in that way and the fragrance is just outstanding its this you know royal white blossom. Fragrance and 8 is one of the keystones and if youre talking of classic french fine fragrance. Flows ops pollinated by greens but by not to do whats so to harvest takes place from shortly after midnight to sunrise the night shift to start. Busy pictures harvest the tiny farms just picking on food takes several minutes. Some manage a kilo per hour. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. If we pick the flowers every year for 6 months 7 days a week through the season always obviously we have to make sacrifices if we want to earn money everyone does that the most we all get paid for how much. Is stellar at. The age. And that. I have already managed 4 kilograms thank goodness is that a bit about that has to make anyone happy with their its a few grams more or less its early still ill carry on a bit i have time until 9 oclock well he wasnt then and i did them a list that had the satisfaction. Of the factory farms are in the middle of the delta around 20 kilometers north of the city of tom tom. The whole region is a paradise for the production of fragrances thanks to the fertile floodplain at the water. The jasmine transport looks leisure late only at 1st glance in reality the jasmine blossoms have to be processed as quickly as possible before that precious a rubber disappears before the aromas are extracted the millions of flowers away quickly but finally because the sense of need to delight customers down the road here on the plantations of the nile delta the harvest is just a job quite so well paid one by the way the pig has got to yield those per kilogram the same price for the pickers who work on the factory farms and for the people who deliver the harvest from the surrounding area every morning. That means around 10 euros per ship had a good 300. 00 euros per month. Thats not bad by gyptian standards what a teacher adds around 100. 00 euros a month. To their elders article is for the quality is important that only the flowers are collected no storks no green leaves and as little water as possible everything has to be super fresh right from the field that we start at 2 in the morning and harvest until 9 after that its too late and the flowers are worthless out of the state as. Its hot past mind egypt peka hala but her colleagues are on their way home there will takes them through the fertile dial delta with sediment deposits brought here over thousands of years by the worlds longest river the nile its as if time has stood still. There a jasmine fields everywhere thousands of pounds lead to the distillery owned by hussein factory and the other 10 plantation owners in the nile delta. Some of the workers like pick on the farmers others deliver the harvest in the old vehicle while yet others sell the spawns of that night shift directly to local middlemen by saving themselves the trip to the wayne station. Its all about the queen of sense if we take all the pictures of the families working on the jasmine farms of the nile delta together jasmine provides a living for around 50000. 00 people. But lula is the name of the small village that has been hollows home since her wedding its in the middle of the nile delta is fragrant jasmine but its one of her daughters hes already working on the fields which gives her better chances on the wedding market habit that seems very antiquated and not very bad she paid into the european one i think it is like a bank people say the delta because their job gives a safe income in the politically and economically tough times egypt has been experiencing since the revolution in 2011 thats all the more important policy has been worked as a picture on the side despite a fixed income as a cat in a youth center. And as i look to my mind i think picking a jasmine since year 6 at school of thought that its allowed me to pay for my training and all the normal expenses i have and clothes food books and so on its not my fault the money really help with everything. If you. Even though the pickers income is above average theres only a 6 month season for the job woodstock said may or june. Thats why i come out runs a small pigeon breeding facility on the side the birds taste great and also sell for around 3 euros each. The whole thing is independent of the seasons because pigeons made all year around. Thats one way the people of the nile delta prepare for the flowers time in the winter people find a 2nd job. To seed factory and his wife are a dream team with a sophisticated aroma they both already had the farms before they met for the 1st time for the chemistry was right they joined forces and they now supply customers in 80 countries that business requires a sure instinct and a good nose customers only want the exact quality they need for their product the geranium oil or a neroli essence can quickly be too bad for a perfect put also too good. To have very high standards for the products they make do completely without chemicals the same is true in the ethical area these 2 dont just Pay Lip Service to social responsibility. To be sure ether founded a school 2 years ago there were several teachers in 3 classes most of them 140. 00 pupils all the children of the farms pickens the oldest of them were already helping out on the fields. Where i wanted to ask for love that i like the school very much we get books and can learn all kinds of things our teachers even teach as english and science will learn the quran and many other useful things we also read stories we have everything we want here. The afternoon classes up supposed to replace the state school but add to it and thats very necessary even it was so interested way for the aroma producers to aretha and whos saying. Its a huge black its a huge black because what statistics are telling us is not reality we figured out that that that people graduate from school and they dont treat them right and they figured out because we are here in a rural area and we would like to hire some people in a middle management jobs and they say yes i graduated from school well where is your c. V. Come we give them a small. Tasks to do and theyre not even. In the. Dow its time to process the jasmine. Even elaborate process lasted several days the very last drop of the roomba is removed from its blossoms step one the flowers are spread out in several layers in huge steel vents. After the lids are closed they are immersed in liquid except the cold solvent its absolutely odorless and ideal for binding the scent of the jasmine. Step to the hexane is pumped into another container a labyrinth of pipes look a bit be crap and in this container its heated until its almost completely evaporated. Then its time for step 3. In the new this machine really not just the one thing that it was a bit like in the wine industry. The lead at the bottom line article that you dont want to remain in the year or so though it would remain. That your solution is what send you the final part of the work which will get us the full breadth of our living. Delivered bassy is ready for the number of essence to be extracted into his call to do his huge containers. This is what the biomass looks like after its had it since the extracted hot blackish brown love. But he had to theres not a single gram of toxins in the heap which is why the matter is perfect for composting. Before hussein took over the farm from his late father bed in the late ninetys he was a scientist and as a green biologist he spent many years diving in Swiss Mountain lakes as a colleague of the deep sea pilot just be careful. Hussein as we bade the scientist every process on his farm such as producing fertilizer is refined by him until the result is perfect oaks aegean saturation 7 taken towards he developed until the compost has a perfect consistency. Were getting close to the final 2 production steps of the most valuable product here on the factory farms. The jasmine concentrate has been separated from any suspended matter and was repeated once again to produce jasmin concrete. Which is now such a valuable liquid that it requires 3 signatures just to weigh it. When the liquid cools it becomes solid. And molding in my hand were about to pound the jasmine off. With our concentrated in 5. 40 percent of this is the by rolled up wax which can all be used by the perfume in the remaining 60 percent because the oil and which take the name of jasmine up. And i can manage that it now barry nice and im sorry and all. The food the essence is said all around the world theres one. Final production step of the solid yellow a white seam us. This material was taking you. And i was preceded by great piano which i like to hear very. Often want to be collecting yeah. This would be a ball for the 5 eagle. But for fun about 3. 33. 5 tons of jasmine. And her colleagues had to pick more than 3. 3 terms of jasmine blossoms on the fields to produce one the new 1000000 container with 5 kilograms of jasmine absolute. The market value of this concentrate to concentrate to the concentrate is around 22000 euros sure sounds. But jensen is just one of the 80 products that who say the jury for make on their farm. Most of them dont come anywhere close in value to what the jazz with absolute is worth theres rosewater for example which is sold by the head to lead to. The different essences are stored in the big hole until its time to ship the. Quality control from start to finish. Every product is exactly did detail for the most expensive be greedy for the purview of his creations down to cheap bulk goods for industry customers dont like mistakes the quality cant be approximate it must be exact. Weve never seen a dog or a captive this whole during all the days we spent on the farm thats probably because this intensity of scent would drive that delicate noses crazy even the seedy a Warehouse Manager sometimes overwhelmed by it all a constant old factory bombardment. Over time the scent gets annoying i try to neutralize it and drink a lot of milk whenever i get a moment i catch some fresh air. For thousands of years people of the nile delta have made a living off jasmine the river is the lifeline in the middle of a hostile desert that produces the most colorful founds the nile delta the cradle of said so. Its quite exceptional i mean we connect to the very roots of of egypt both from a land point of view this is agriculture and planting and from the type of products that we produce aromatics we basically relate to as medics and voids and everything dealing with beauty and people can easily imagine how this goes back to ancient egypt and pharaohs and so on and we basically still carry this and what we do. Smelling something is something that you cannot catch something that. You know comes very deep you have no control its perhaps one of those senses if not the only sense on which you have no control i mean if you stop breathing you die you can close your eyes and you can sleep and stop watching thats no problem you dont have to touch things but you can still bring you. Live by. Line where theres some sense the pickers would prepare for the next night shift rabbi graham kilo by kilo they collect tons of jasmine blossoms to extract tiny quantities of the aroma the aroma of which its sad that no purview would be thinkable without jasmine the queen of sense. Been up in the flame recently. Developers have big plans in texas may help make a serious soldier transportation problem. Because this is a viable option for the future. Or just a lot of hot air. On d w. Im scared that the fire were not hard and in the end its a me youre not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. Are you familiar with this. With the smugglers will lie and say. Whats your story ready ready. Im working. Women especially in victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. Oh you are not even a turn off and yet you want to become a citizen. Info migrants your platform for reliable information. 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