The Nilakoddai flower market

Today I am at Nilakoddai Market, around Madurai, which is much larger than Kodai Road Market.
Here are being sold all kind of flowers and herbs : jasmine, tuberose, marigold, davana and its apricot smell, marjoram and its slightly peppery aromatic note, holy basil (whose smell is more herbaceous than the Grand Vert or the methylchavicol ones), etc.
Jasmine buds are sorted according to their size. Of course, the price will depend on it.

Nerium Oleander flowers are shipped in plastic bags. Oleander is only cultivated for offerings to the temple. Despite its sweet powdery perfume, with a dragee note, it is not used in perfumery.

At the back of the market, flower garlands are made for the offerings. They are exported to countries such as Great Britain and Dubai, sometimes to other Emirates, sometimes to Singapore. They are kept cool and shipped with ice packs, so that the flowers and their fragrance are being preserved. Flower garlands are mainly made of tuberoses and Cressentinum Indicum, yellow flowers which smell of wax, honey and terpenes.

Here are flowers bought without being smelt. Therefore, I probably look like some kind of strange beast holding the smallest piece of herb to its nostrils.