Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Female Fragrance Discussion › ★★★★★TV Show: EVERYTHING ABOUT MAKING PERFUME!!!!
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

★★★★★TV Show: EVERYTHING ABOUT MAKING PERFUME!!!!

post #1 of 10
6/19/08 at 2:51pm
Thread Starter 
Half-hour-long, French TV show provides an overview of everything related to perfume making!

Perhaps the best compilation of footage inside the fragrance industry you're likely to see online.

Includes perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and France's version of "Bill Nye, the Science Guy."

It would help if you understand French, but visually worthwhile even if the only French you know is "bonjour."


Shown in three segments of about 8-1/2 minutes each.
part 1 of 3
part 2 of 3
part 3 of 3
:toppie:
Reply
Reply

Features on Basenotes

Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
post #2 of 10
6/19/08 at 3:27pm
Ann-croy-able!! Many thanks Joy-ful lady! Save saved it to watch again. (And for us Francophiles it's worth the price of admission just to listen, And wow! is Grasse gorgeous.)
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 10
6/20/08 at 1:25am
Really enjoyed watching those! Thanks for the information. I understood most of it,
although they do speak very fast!! For those of you that don't speak French:-

Apparently they are paying 4.27 euros for a kilo of centifolia roses this year. One of those huge vats holds 100 kilos of roses. I went to the Fragonard factory in Grasse about 25 years ago, so it brought back happy memories.
My husband bought me some Miranda, Dahlia and Reve Indien perfumes in those lovely gold bottles.
I also bought a gel air freshener that lasted for ages. The smell in the whole town is amazing.

The science of the art of smelling was explained very well I thought. When we smell something there are
a limited amount of receptors in the nasal passages that the scent molecules can latch on to ( we actually miss a lot of them) and the ones that are caught get sent as a message to the brain smell receptors which get imprinted in our smell memory.

Normal earthlings can memorise about 2,000 to 4,000 different odours, whereas a trained "nose" can distinguish up to 10,000!!
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 10
6/20/08 at 3:23am
  • Taz
  • offline
  • Gender:
Thanks for posting. Nice vid!
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 10
6/20/08 at 12:07pm
Very cool thing to find, Quarry.
Thank you so much.
I will save the link and watch ASAP.
Cheers!
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 10
6/20/08 at 12:55pm
Great stuff, Quarry! Thanks for sharing!

Quote:
Originally Posted by kewart View Post

Apparently they are paying 4.27 euros for a kilo of centifolia roses this year.

note that this episode is about ten years old. Francis Kurkdjian was still in his twenties here!
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 10
6/20/08 at 1:01pm
Very nice. Thank you for posting, Quarry. I understand "un peu" but the visuals were great even without the translation.
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 10
6/20/08 at 1:38pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcello View Post

Great stuff, Quarry! Thanks for sharing!

Note that this episode is about ten years old. Francis Kurkdjian was still in his twenties here!

You are extra welcome, Marcello. And thanks for helping to date the program's birth. Ah, but is not this sort of thing, what you call, timeless?

And thanks, kewart, for some translation. Like lizzie, je comprends seulement un peu.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 10
6/23/08 at 9:42am
Oh I thought Francis K. was really cute - probably still is!!
Didn't realise it was a time warp.
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 10
6/23/08 at 10:16am
Thanks, very nice to see.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion

Features on Basenotes

Petals Falling From The Sky - A Report From The Cote d'Azur's Bataille De Fleurs
Basenotes Reader Awards 2013 - Finalists Announced.
Greatest Hits: Annick Menardo
Basenotes › Basenotes Forums › Fragrance Discussion › Female Fragrance Discussion › ★★★★★TV Show: EVERYTHING ABOUT MAKING PERFUME!!!!