Parfumerie Galimard

In the town of Grasse, there are three main parfumerie shops: Fragonard (the most famous, to the famous painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard), Galimard and Molinard. Looks like they are coming from the same family, doesn't it? But they don't :) And by the way, the right pronunciation is without last letter ('d') as always in French. So, the last week-end we with my friend visiting Erxon went to visit Galimard parfumerie searching for a special perfume for him. Also, we went to the one where mesuem of perfumes is situated, in the suburb of Grasse. Galimard personal have suprised us by offering a guide in russian just for two of us. At the end instead of 20min we had an hour and half. That was really interesting tour, now I know how did Grasse started massivly to produce perfumes: some women from a well-known family gave a task to make her leather gloves smell well and not to be oilish. So, the guy invented another way of making a perfume and his method became very popular. Now about 60% of world perfumes are made in Grasse. And Galimard is the most ancient from three of these. They produce about one new 'formula' in a year.

Another thing I got appointed was Lavender oil and it's healing abilities. As this region of Alpes-Maritimes is famous for fields of Lavender, you can find it in every town. And now it's time of their blossom. If somewhere else I would have been told about its supa-dupa qualities, I would thought that a person telling me that is just another grandma crazy about the herbs. Anyway, we tried it on practice already, my friend had a sunburn and it appeard to work really superb! Nice smell and fast results :) And also, it helps to get rid of mosquitoes!!!

Ok, back to perfumes... the best thing about them was that they smell natural. The most natural they could be... Flowers, chocolate, vanilla and etc. For example, Citrus smell this season is the most popular (in case if you are going step by step with fashion trends). Another good offer was to use an elixir of several flowers mixed with small shiny particles, just for going out somewhere in the evening :)

At the end I ended up with a bottle of Lavender and live happily ever after :) No pictures so far, but a bunch of interesting things were explored!