The fresh, light scent, called Vert Oriental, is meant to mimic green tea leaf during the Chinese spring harvest.

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Across all of Africa the impact of human activity is clear - whether in the newly irrigated areas created by the waters of the Nile, turning huge areas of the desert around Egypt's lake Nasser green, or the urban sprawl of Dakar, across the Cap Vert peninsula in Senegal.

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