[1stPickSites] (03/21/07) International Perfume Museum

International Perfume Museum

http://www.museesdegrasse.com/MIP/fla_ang/MIP_accueil.shtml

Today's site offers a tour through the rarefied world of
perfumery. Readers will discover there's more to a scent than
meets the nose.

"Inaugurated in 1989 at Grasse, "the cradle of traditional
perfumery", the International Perfume Museum's exceptional
collections retrace the history of perfumes, and also that of
soap, and make-up and cosmetics, over 4,000 years. ... As both
the memory and the partner of the perfume industry, it unveils
all the stages of perfume creation, from the harvest and the
treatment of raw materials to the launching of the finished
product. ... This site welcomes you on a journey through a
magical world where dreams become perfumes." - from the website

The site provides information on a range of ingredients used in
the creation of perfumes, from the sprightly tuberose to the
unappealing gray
amber, with photos, origins, characteristics, particular odor
qualities and some of the perfumes in which they may be found. A
section on the history of perfumes sweeps through time from the
antiquity of the ancient Greeks to the decades of the twentieth
century, accompanied by an extensive collection of perfume
containers. The science of perfumes is not overlooked, with
material on distillation and extraction techniques --
enfleurage, cold pressing and volatile solvents; and the use of
such modern chemical processes such as chromatography in scent
identification.


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