Egypt’s blossoming trade in fragrant jasmine flowers
SHUBRA BELOULA, Egypt: At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day’s work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta. Egypt’s Gharbiya region is the heartland of its jasmine harvest. The aromatic oils extracted for perfumes from here make up over half […]
