The ylang-ylang ( Cananga odorata ), or ylang-ylang , is a Arbre of the family of the Annonacée S, originating in Southeast Asia. One cultivates it for his flowers from which one extracts by Distillation a essential Huile very much used in Parfumerie.

Use

The essential Huile of Ylang-ylang is used in Aromathérapie where one considers that it makes it possible to balance the blood blood pressure (in the event of arterial hypertension in particular), to control the secretion of Sébum and to be useful like Aphrodisiaque.

Qualities

One distinguishes four qualities from gasoline of ylang-ylang:

• Extra S
• Extra first
• Second
• Third

History

The plant was introduced into the archipelago of (the Comoros, of which Mayotte) in 1909 coming from the Filipino . The Comoros became the first world producer of ylang-ylang and export each Sixty of it tons. One finds also distillings of flowers of ylang-ylang in the north of Madagascar. However, the multiple ylang-ylang in all the Indian Ocean, like the island of the Meeting.

Anecdote

The armorial bearings of Mayotte, adopted in 1982, include/understand two flowers of ylang-ylang on the central ecu.

The Belgian novelist Henri Vernes baptized Miss Ylang-ylang one of his female characters, adversary of Bob Morane in several of the novels of the series.

External bonds

• Ylang Ylang… the enemy of Bob Morane in http://www.bobmorane.fr

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