LA MAGAZINE: IS COCO DE MER THE SEXIEST FORBIDDEN FRUIT ON THE PLANET?
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A new perfume collection launched by a Seychellois Creole conservationist from the fruits that only grow on her native African archipelago of islands is putting that question to the test with a Los Angeles launch
By Michele McPhee
Photographed by Sydni Stearns
Seychelles, the African archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, has long been a place of sensual mystery, steeped in ancient cultures and unusual tropical flora that exists nowhere else on earth. But the queen of those luscious and beautiful plants is the Coco de Mer, a flowering palm that creates the world's largest and heaviest seeds, a nut that needs 50 full years to reach its curvy female-shaped maturity, and then another two years to germinate, and another six to ten years to ripen.
Its botanical name, Lodoicea callipyge, is a nod to the Coco de Mer's lascivious look. It loosely translates to mean "beautiful rump."
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