The back stories of many esteemed perfumers share some major commonalities: a sizable number of these noses hail from Grasse — as is the case with Olivier Cresp, Françoise Caron, Jacques Cavallier Bertrand, Nathalie Lorson, and Antoine Maisondieu — or, like Dominique Ropion, Edmond Roudnitska, Pierre Bourdon, and countless others, they studied at highly prestigious institutes and worked at famed perfume houses like Galimard (the perfumery that made scents for Louis XV’s court in the 18th century), Molinard, and Fragonard in the storied town, located on the French Riviera.
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