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Author : Richard Lebeau Michel Le Louarn
Publisher : Editions du Garde-Temps - 2003
Language : French
The original title of the book was : Perfumes of the Orient Aleppo
the ladder of the East.
It is also the crossroad of the world. A wonderful
book which the writer devoted to the perfumes of Aleppo, starting with
the Jasmine and damascene rose. But for the writer, the perfumes of
Aleppo are not limited to toilet perfumes, he smells their fragrance
from cinchona trees which shadow over the streets and lanes,
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as well as from cardamom and Arabic coffee which he calls the bedouin coffee,
and finally from
the sweets. He approaches all these subjects in a poetic manner which
adds beauty and excitement to the book.
The writer shows his admiration to the Aleppo soap made from olive oil
and bay laurel oil. He addresses the reader saying : you smell the
perfume everywhere in Aleppo : in the old houses and hidden gardens, and
in the faades of the decorated buildings, in the house floors whose
tiles are aligned with geometrical shapes, in souks, public baths and
fronts of stores, and their contents of exotic spices, embroideries and
jewellery.
The book is illustrated with a wide collection of photos taken by the
photographer Michel Le Louarn, which are so high in quality that you
think you are near a picture created by an artist, or a bottle of
perfume from Aleppo.
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