Perfumes are always a popular gift at Christmas, but there are many mysteries around what exactly goes into those shiny bottles stocked on shelves around the globe.
As the head of natural ingredient procurement at Swiss fragrance giant Firmenich, Dominique Roques has explored the most remote parts of the world sourcing rare ingredients for prestigious fragrance houses.
"It's a sort of ongoing and never-ending journey to go there and to make sure that the products do not disappear. Some of them have been as old as 5,000 years," he tells ABC RN's Late Night Live.
