Cananga Odorata: Exotic, active, demanding respect, compelling, commanding, erotic, powerful.

• This is not a gentle essence - Ylang Ylang demands respect, is masterful, compelling; commanding attention, to have all your senses vibrant, sharp and clear. Work hard, play hard, feel powerfully alive.

A bored woman thought to take a trip to the desert. She had been in most places and nothing excited her much any more; she was hoping that the extremes of day and night might be somewhat stimulating.

As it happened, her caravan was swept up in a sand storm and she got lost; much later she was discovered and saved by a group of desert people, who took her back to their camp. Here, she met the prince of the desert.

He was beautiful but stern; and he demanded she should work for her living in the day, and dance for him at night.

She kicked and spit but after a week or two, she noticed she had become much stronger; and everything was more profoundly wonderful, shocking to the senses, powerful life forces surging through her - and for the first time ever she was glad she was alive.

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