🇫🇷 Grasse

From Mandelieu-la-Napoule to Grasse it is about 16 km with our 🚲, but they are tough - it goes up about 400 meters in height, here our e-bikes can really let off some steam 👍😊.

The city is known for its longstanding perfume industry. Major perfumeries like Fragonard or Galimard offer tours of their perfume production.

We ride past the 🚘 traffic jam, all looking for a parking space, and park our 🚲 directly in front of the Fragonard perfumery 😊. Our timing is very good, as we arrive on time for a German-speaking tour of the perfume production. The lady explains the details so well that even men can follow along 😊.

Now I know that a perfume always consists of a top note, a heart note, and a base note, and that the individual notes also lose their fragrance in that order 👍. The training to become a perfumer takes 9 years. There are 2000 trained perfumers worldwide, and only 100 of them are called "noses" who have created almost all famous perfumes (I paid attention 🤓😊).

After 1 hour, I have shortness of breath and need a breath of fresh air 😅😅😅🙏 - Heidi takes her time and gets some fragrant items 🧐😊.

Afterwards, we visit the truly very old town center and ride back to our mobile home with our 🚲.