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...ever thought Chanel No. 5 has too much ilang-ilang or Annick Goutal's Ce Soir Ou Jamais has too little Turkish rose, then it may well be time to concoct your own fragrance. And the best location for that is the world's scent capital?the French city of Grasse, just north of Cannes...
...Today, Grasse is to fragrance what Wall Street is to finance. It is home to the world's top perfume houses, and almost any designer scent you care to name has been wholly or partly developed here?including the aforementioned Chanel No. 5 (created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux, and so named because it was the fifth scent that he presented to his client, the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel...
...know you're getting close to Mahaneh Yehuda when you notice the strong scent of cardamom and see the ultra-Orthodox Israeli men, in their black Homburg hats and long beards, scurrying home with their bags of vegetables. Then you spy the green-bereted Border Police, eyeing the noisy flow of customers from behind a barrier. And the once cheery mural now defaced with graffiti reading DEATH TO ARABS...
...newly hip Trincomalee, and?even if you haven't crashed in the traffic maelstrom or been totaled by zigzagging three-wheelers?you'll be in serious need of some rest and rejuvenation. Bliss it is, then, to pass through the Sanctuary Spa's pebbled portal, catching sight and scent of a blossoming frangipani tree...
Over the next four years, 5 a.m. was when I debated the dogmas of different religions, confessed life dreams over diet Coke and Carly Simon, exchanged tales of family turmoil while doing laundry and watching Scent of a Woman—something about the intimacy of the hour made it easier to open up to my friends...