These are the largest rose fields in Grasse - 70,000 square meters with 50,000 Rosa centifolia bushes. The same growers also have 3 hectares of Jasminum grandiflorum which are the home to about 60,000 jasmine shrubs. These fields are owned by the company of Chanel and are used exclusively for No. 5 parfum extrait. They also have iris fields, but this will be discussed another day. The company bought those fields (originally planted by monks) and thus solved the problems that most growers face: shortage of pickers (especially for the jasmine, since the pickers are paid by the yield - where as in rose harvest, they are paid by the hour) and worries about market for the finished product. In the olden days, most of the homes in Grasse had little jasmine fields next to them, and they only picked the flowers and brought them to a cooperative extraction plant in the city for extracting the concrete and absolute. Now most of the jasmine fields are gone because of land development (and the issues mentioned above - which most like has caused the former jasmine growers to sell their land).ayalasmellyblog
