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Grasse

The Perfume Fields
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Grasse tanners perfumed their leather gloves in the sixteenth century to mask the smell, and when gloves went out of fashion the town kept the perfume — jasmine and May rose are still grown in the fields around it for houses that name Grasse on the bottle. A nose trains for years and can distinguish several thousand raw materials.

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