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Date: June 2010 - South Pacific

IN BRIEF
The new Dior perfume with a touch of Tiare Tahiti ... from the Marquesas Islands.

Exoticism is in fashion with the great perfume producers. After having smelled the jasmine fragrances all the way in Pondichery in India, it is the Polynesian islands turn to get top billing with the Tiare Tahiti, at the core of the new perfume launched by the famous brand name.

"Escale aux Marquises" (Stopover in the Marqueas), according to the first tests, delivers some (only some) of the secrets of the mysterious, powerful and exhilarating Tiare flower, that the vahine have been found of from the beginning of times.

For this future best seller by Dior, the invitation to a journey in the South Seas is expressed by the captivating emanation of the Tiare, associated for the circumstance to cinnamon, sprinkled with pepper and cardamon, the whole thing wrapped into orange and a light touch of rose berries. A true olfactive odyssey, organized by François Demarchy, the great Master of Dior’s perfumes.

 For more information about "Escale aux Marquises" on Dior's website

AUSTRAL ISLANDS: Local cauliflowers and broccolis on Polynesian menus starting next July  

The island of the Southernmost archipelago in Polynesia, the Austral Islands, benefit from a particular climate (basically tropical, but also slightly temperate) making it possible since early days to cultivate specific plants such as coffee, potatoes, green cabbage, but also apples (only in Rapa), vegetables requiring a cooler climate.

This is how in Tubuai, varieties of cauliflowers and broccolis have been   tested nearly for a year now. And with the success of these tests being more than satisfying, these two brassicacea will be mass-produced to progressively stop their importation from temperate countries. Cultivated areas have been set aside to ensure the next crops of cauliflowers and of broccolis, expected toward late July this year.

With results similar to those in Metropolitan France, 5 and 8 tons per hectare. Tubuai should be able to export some fifteen tons of these green vegetables per month during the cool season, between June and October. It means jobs and income for the inhabitants of this island that just suffered a damaging cyclone earlier this year.  

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