Montpellier, ancestral capital of perfume
Lecture by Caroline Jauffret-Redon, author of the book of the same name.
Before Grasse, there was Paris, before Paris, there was Montpellier, the ancestral capital of perfumes.
This is the astonishing, little-known story of the birth of perfume in Montpellier.
The opulence of the Mediterranean trading posts, the prestigious University School of Medicine, the creation of the Jardin des Plantes and, finally, the aromatic reservoir of the Montpellier garrigue. All these factors combined to make Montpellier one of the perfume capitals of France.
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