Illustration from a 1922 edition if the London Illustrated Times entitled: At Work in a Grasse Perfumery. Stills (on left) and (right foreground) an Overseer finding the freezing point of an anethol produced from aniseed. Grasse has had a prospering perfu
Illustration from a 1922 edition if the London Illustrated Times entitled: At Work in a Grasse Perfumery. Stills (on left) and (right foreground) an Overseer finding the freezing point of an anethol produced from aniseed. Grasse has had a prospering perfume industry since the end of the 18th century. Grasse is the centre of the French perfume industry and is known as the world's perfume capital. The success of Grasse perfumeries was based on the abundance of flowers harvested in the region. During the 19th century, there were about eighty, largely family-owned, perfumeries in the Grasse region, all, more or less, competing for the same business. By the end of World War II, in spite of the quality of flowers cultivated in the Grasse region, production costs were becoming prohibitive in a world in which perfume was becoming more and more a mass market product.
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