It was by Sicily’s Ionian Sea south of Taormina when I first saw the exotic foil images on the colourful, embossed boxes of the small soap and fragrance company Ortigia Sicilia’s perfumes.
Names of Sicilian plants have inspired the fragrances; Melograno (pomegranate) Zagara (orange blossom) and Fico d’India (Indian fig) and images of exotic animals in silver foil; they conjure an orientalism and stir memories.
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