Rosewood Oil from the Amazon

A Quest to Save a Tree, and Make the World Smell Sweet (NY Times): "Until the perfume Chanel No. 5 went on the market in 1921, pau rosa, or Brazilian rosewood, was just another tree that grew in abundance in the Amazon. But the enduring popularity of that fragrance, which includes rosewood oil as a main ingredient, began a process that has led to a black-market trade in the oil, and the tree itself being designated an endangered species."
Read about the efforts to protect the trees and still market the oil from a small village in the Amazon.