In the dining room, she uses either scented candles designed to complement the aroma of the food, or unscented ones.

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As for that alleged disdain for soap, the statistics ignore the savon de Marseille, an unscented household soap used by many French people, especially southerners, for washing bodies as well as clothes.

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