It just so happened that my Mom's birthday was this past weekend while she was visiting us in Paris. What better place to celebrate than the home of champagne and food drenched in butter? In addition to popping and savoring a bottle of bubbly, I took my mom to Fragonard Perfumer to participate in a "perfumer's apprentice" workshop, where we learned the history of perfume and got to make our own unique blend of a citrus-based perfume. Although Fragonard is based in Grasse in the South of France, they have a huge shop and museum here in Paris. While we didn't have free reign to create whatever kind of scent we would like (the class offers citrus-based options) it is a really fun way to spend an afternoon. In a short 90 minutes, you actually learn a lot about how perfume is made, where different scents come from, and how they are blended into the perfumes that we know and love. One of the most interesting factoids is that there are only around 300 perfumers in the world, who are affectionately called "Le Nez" (The Nose).
At the end of the workshop (offered in both French and English), we were given a tour of the museum and left to our own devices in the gift shop. We each left with a Fragonard perfume - I chose Belle Cherie, and my Mom chose Belle de Nuit.
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