During this process, the weight of jasmine blossoms shrinks significantly. "To pick a kilo of blossom, a picker needs to collect between 4,000 and 6,000 individual blossoms," Fakhry said. "I need one tonne of blossom – about 6 million blossoms – to produce about 2.6 or 2.7kg of jasmine concrete ... and that concrete yields [1kg of jasmine absolute]".