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Comoros, an island nation located in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar, is known as the "Perfume Isles" due to its fragrant plant life, especially the ylang-ylang flower. In fact, it is the world's largest producer of ylang-ylang, supplying around 80% of the world's ylang-ylang flowers used in the famous perfume Chanel No 5. The first confirmed human inhabitants of Comoros are believed to be of Malayo-Polynesian descent, arriving by the 5th or 6th century CE. The first Europeans known to Comoros are thought to have been the Portuguese during the early-16th century. In 1841, France officially took possession of the Comoros Islands by taking possession of Mayotte, and in 1886, the archipelago became a French protectorate.