Let yourself be seduced by the perfect harmony between the delicacy of musky floral notes and the warmth of a precious setting: a dress gilded with fine gold.
In the oldest botanical garden in France, rosemary, thyme and oregano mingle with rare and infinite fragrances of flowers.
Reconnect with the charm of Cologne traditional quality, that of our childhood, fresh and invigorating.
Singular fragrances that echo this Mediterranean city and the history it has known weave.
Ogooué resin, exacerbated by a climate tropical where intermingle according to the seasons incredible diversity of odoriferous species.
Let yourself be seduced by the perfect harmony between the delicacy of musky floral notes and the warmth of a precious setting: a dress gilded with fine gold.
In the oldest botanical garden in France, rosemary, thyme and oregano mingle with rare and infinite fragrances of flowers.
Reconnect with the charm of Cologne traditional quality, that of our childhood, fresh and invigorating.
Singular fragrances that echo this Mediterranean city and the history it has known weave.
Ogooué resin, exacerbated by a climate tropical where intermingle according to the seasons incredible diversity of odoriferous species.
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If the port of Lattes had not unloaded spices, unknown fruits, mineral and plant drugs onto its docks, if the Montpellier hinterland did not harbor this fabulous aromatic plant treasure, if the School of Medicine and the apothecaries of the Languedoc city had not excelled since the Middle Ages, then the history of Montpellier would undoubtedly never have been linked to that of perfumes, those fragrances that the kings and queens of France have knighted over the centuries. The story of a completely unknown story within History.
Author: Caroline Redon Jauffret, a journalist now specializing in the sensory world of perfumes and wine.
Bilingual work: French-English
History • Perfumes • Montpellier • Made in France
• History
• Perfumes
• Montpellier
• Made in France
The opulence of the counters in the Mediterranean with spices from the Levant, the prestigious University School of Medicine where brilliant scholars teach such as Arnaud de Villeneuve to whom we owe the technique of alcoholic distillation, or even Pierre Richer de Belleval to whom Henri IV entrusted the creation of the Jardin des Plantes at the University of Montpellier, this formidable combination of ingredients, associated with the fabulous aromatic reservoir offered by the Montpellier scrubland, will allow apothecaries to develop unique perfumed compositions and more and more remarkable.
In the 17th century there were more than a hundred merchant-perfumers in the old town and dynasties were thus born. Among the most famous, let us cite that of Sébastien Matte La Faveur who reformulated the Eau de la Reine de Hungary, also called Eau de Montpellier much appreciated by Louis XIV and Mme de Sévigné, that of Jean Fargeon, perfumer of Melle d'Orléans and later Jean-Louis Fargeon, master perfumer to Queen Marie-Antoinette and the Children of France.
The book retraces this formidable epic, that of the history of perfumes and the city of Montpellier, and which today reconnects with this prestigious past.
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