The plants produce large floral stalks or scapes, that are rich in essential oils. It is then time for the harvest. Thus, with great care, nature's gift is reaped. From the harvest a subtle lotion is made whose fragrance is very much in demand. Every season in Provence marks the landscape with its own distinctive colors.
Winter is monochrome, in infinite gradations.
The light is oblique and pale, somewhat hazy. Usually concealed, bark and stone, reveal their gray tones. Cypresses and holm oaks are neither green nor black, but darkened images. Olive trees have never been so gray. Then one fine morning, the almond trees announce the arrival of spring with fragile white or pink flowers.