Legend of Flower Ilang-Ilang!
Known as Cananga Odorata in English
In a far away place, there lived a couple who have been waited for so long to have a child, but still they are not blessed to have one, in spite of their bountiful life.
They prayed so hard to the Gods to give them a child.
One evening while the woman prayed, an angel appeared in front of her and said "Don't be afraid, I was being sent by God to bring the good news. You will now be given a daughter, a very beautiful one. You will call her Ilang, and you will avoid not let any man to touch her. Because, if it will happened your child will be gone. The angel said before it disappeared.
When Ilang became a woman, so many man liked her.
Her parents was so worried, what if there's a man who will touch her. Because of this they put and imprisoned Ilang in one room.
Ilang felt to much sorrow. She always cried night and day. And every night she prayed.
God's heard Ilang's prayer. One day the window of her room suddenly open, Ilang was so happy when she got out. She watched at the beautiful garden, and breath fresh air. When suddenly somebody saw her. The man called her and hold her hand.
It's too late when her mother arrived. Ilang is slowly vanished. Her mother cried since she can do nothing and said "Ilang... Ilang, where are you now my child?" A very fragrant scent of a flower is what her mother smell. It came from the place where Ilang disappeared. There's a plant that slowly grow from the place. And they called it Ilang, as a reminder of there gone daughter.
When the time passed it was now called Ilang-ilang.