Jasmine’s fragrant flowers have been used for millennia in India to honour the gods, and the scent is a key part of world-famous perfumes – Copyright AFP R ...

While modern-day skincare is now embracing natural and more botanical ingredients, these floral elixirs were already a staple in the vanity of ancient Indian queens. Let’s see how they used them.

If I tell you I have been traveling to India all my life, what I mean by that is in my imagination. In actuality, it has been three decades and dozens of trips taken throughout the subcontinent, to ...

Jasmine is among the most popular flowering plants because of its sweet smelling and beautiful white flower. You can have a healthy jasmine plant to fill your garden or your balcony with its sweet ...

There is something timeless about the fragrance of jasmine in a home. Whether it is growing near a balcony railing, beside a gate, or in a small terrace garden, jasmine instantly changes the mood of a ...

In India, a new pest species, Contarentinia icardiflores sp.nov., has been identified to infest jasmine flower buds, by the scientists in the ICAR-Directorate of Floricultural Research (ICAR-DFR) in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A kilogram of jasmine oil can cost $5,000. But to get that small amount of oil, harvesters need to handpick over 5,000 jasmine buds. Once the flower blooms, producers ...