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The vat produces a substance called concrete (a wax-like formula). About 400 kg of flowers are needed to get 1 kg of concrete. From the concrete, absolute (the liquid actually used in the fragrance) is separated. It takes approximately three days to transform the concrete into absolute. There is a bit more that goes into the whole process, but these are the essential points.