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The thing that surprised me the most was to discover that there was patchouli perfume. I always associated it hippies and the hippie trail from the 60s and was thinking it was from Asia


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poulpy12301/17/2025

After checking patchouli is indeed a south Asian plant, that is not endemic from the Mediterranean area, so it's even more fascinating than the wine