Jasmine

The jasmine is, with the pink , one of the two flowers queens of the Parfum ery. Its name comes from the Arab yâsamîn , itself borrowed from the Persan. The flower pushes on a shrub pertaining to the family of the Oléacées, especially cultivated in India, in which it is originating, and in Egypt. Among more than 200 species, the jasmines most used in perfumery are Jasminum grandiflorum , Jasminum officinal and Jasminum odoratissimum . The other species for the majority are cultivated in the gardens like shrubs of ornament.

In addition to India, one of the principal producers of jasmine was always the China. But the tree also adapted in Mediterranean Europe: Jasminum grandiflorum is usually called jasmine of Spain , and the town of Grasse, since the middle of the 17th century, launched out in the culture of the jasmine. The harvest of the jasmine of Fatty (become rare today) proceeds during August. The flowers must be gathered right before the paddle and treated as soon as possible.

To obtain one kg of absolute gasoline of jasmine, it is necessary to collect approximately seven million flowers. As much to say that the natural jasmine expensive, is reserved for the perfumes of luxury, whose majority themselves prefer to employ a synthetic version. The house Patou continues despite everything to use it. It should be said that the jasmine, mixed with the pink, had made the great success of the perfume Joy (1930), for which Jean Patou said that 10  was needed; 600 flowers of jasmine to produce one ounce of perfume.

The jasmine is at the origin of the female Arab first name Yasmina (also Yasmine , Yassmine ).

Symbols

Since centuries, the jasmine is regarded in Orient as the symbol of the love and female temptation. In India, Kâma, the god of the love, reached his victims by arrows to which it attached flowers of jasmine. Cléopâtre would have gone to the meeting of Marc Antoine in a boat whose veils were coated with jasmine perfume. The weddings of jasmine are the 66 years symbol of Mariage in the French folklore.

chemistry

The Acetate of benzyl and the Linalol are the active components of the jasmine perfume.

Principal species

  • Jasminum grandiflorum (jasmine of Spain, cultivated in Grasse for perfumery, large tinted white flowers of red to the outside)
  • Jasminum officinal (white Jasmine, jasmine common to composed sheets, originating in Iran and introduced in France in 1597, cultivated in Grasse)
  • Jasminum odoratissimum (round branches, introduced in France of the Atlantic islands in 1656)
  • Jasminum polyanthum (white Jasmine) note: the flowers are white inside, pinks outside
  • Jasminum dichotomum
  • Jasminum elongatum
  • Jasminum azoricum
  • Jasminum mesnyi (pink Jasmin)
  • Jasminum multiflorum
  • Jasminum nitidum
  • Jasminum nudiflorum (jasmine of winter with yellow flowers)
  • Jasminum sambac (jasmine of Arabia)
  • Jasminum fruticans (woody Jasmin)
  • Jasmin of Madagascar , or Stéphanotis floribunda.
  • etc
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