Each year, the perfume maker celebrates a different flower and 2011 honours the orange blossom.
Grasse also boasts the early medieval Notre Dame du Puy Cathedral and the International Perfume Museum.
Marcel Bich, for example, the Bic pen pioneer, blundered into panty hose and perfume.
Investors seemed to consider this as more of a stretch than scarves and perfume.
He also knows his perfume, having studied at Roure Bertrand Dupont with legendary perfumer Jean Amic.
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But Turin and Sanchez understand that chemistry alone does not determine the success of a perfume.
"The Perfume Lover" covers everything from the history of perfume to contemporary olfactory fashions.
Mr. Ellena was literally born into the business, growing up near the French perfume capital, Grasse.
The rich lady has the affair with the perfume magnate, then her son gets killed.
The book caught the attention of perfume manufacturers, who invited him inside their secret labs.
Employees put together 900 Justin Bieber "Someday" perfume gift packs at the Herald Square location.
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Selling ritzy tea is like selling premium vodka or perfume: Marketing and price are important.
His other credits include Criminal Justice, Brideshead Revisited and the literary big screen adaptation of Perfume.
She also launched her own fashion and perfume lines, and has taken behind-the-scenes roles as producer.
It's whale vomit - known as ambergris, which is still sometimes used to make perfume.
It is still used in perfumes, although many perfume makers now use a synthetic version.
Just like food and wine, perfume has recently enjoyed a renaissance of sorts among latter-day Esseintes-ists.
These ranged from working as a Script Editor on EastEnders through to selling perfume at Boots!
In any genetically successful love match, one of the partners ought to hate a unisex perfume.
One would be that a woman's choice of perfume will resist the vagaries of fashion.
Black-and-white portraits of the perfumers, or what Malle calls his perfume authors, adorn the walls.
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This year, they anointed Rojjana one of the four faces of Allure, their perfume.
The earthy, musky perfume of this subterranean delicacy has long been rumored to possess aphrodisiacal powers.
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But Grasse, a medieval Provencal town with cobblestone streets, is still considered the perfume capital of the world.
Ness names Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins' comical philosophical fourth novel, published in 1984, as a particular favourite.
It was no great surprise when the son went to work for a perfume company at 16.
D. in physiology and biophysics from the University of London, Turin also has a rarefied hobby: perfume.
Turin's passion led him to write the first-ever perfume guide, a kind of Zagat's for the nose.
The company's logo, on the front of the perfume bottles, is also reminiscent of the royal seal.
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