Firewood

One of the ubiquitous smells of Provence is wood smoke. If it is not a wood-fire oven, it is the farmers burning vines or wood fires heating a house on a chilly morning.

Wood Fired Oven

Part of the charm of Provence is the perfumed wood smoke everywhere. Almost every morning, farmers are burning vine prunings, branches, brush piles and such. You can look across the valley and see the rising woodsmoke.

Then you go into the kitchen and smell the woodsmoke in the baking oven, and you know that you are in heaven.