Jasmine Absolute Oil (Jasminum grandiflorum)

Jasmine plant is mentioned by the Egyptians from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. Cleopatra was well aware of the goodness of the little bottles of essential oils and she used a wide range of essential oils. Jasmines are native of tropical and subtropical regions and introduced in the mid sixteenth century. Among the large number of species existing, only three species have attained importance in commercial cultivation. Jasminum is considered as a native of the northern Egypt. The name Jasmine is of Arabic origin and is believed to have been derived from Yasmin.