The sweet smell of success: Patrick Alès magnificent garden is still going strong

There is apparently an Egyptian legend that says that if you plant circles of sycamore trees, and you stand in the middle, you will hear God. So this is exactly what Patrick Alès, founder of the French botanical haircare company Phyto (Latin for plant), did in his breathtaking garden park, La Lienne d'Alès. In the middle of this sits a stone sculpture, made by a local artist, of 'Dedos de Dios' (the two fingers of God), pointing to the heavens. "I haven't heard him yet," laughs Alès, or PA – 'Pay-Ah' – as he is known to his family and 900 employees. "Perhaps it is because they are not yet tall enough," he jests.






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