Chapter 492: The Story of the Perfume Town and a Murderer

There is a perfume town in the south of France called Grasse. It is the origin of French perfume manufacturing and the raw material source of major perfume factories in Paris. The world-famous Chanel N°5 perfume was born here.

This small town in the south of the French Blue Coast is close to Nice and Cannes. The charming sunshine, golden beaches, and ancient towns make the whole area full of the flavor of the Mediterranean.

Tang Xinyi and Li Xiaofan set out from Cannes and drove along Highway N85 for half an hour to reach this perfume town.

This perfume town is the favorite of girls. If everyone has a dream place in their hearts, then for girls who love perfume, Paris is just a place of fragrant clothes and hair, and Grasse is the dream place of women. Grasse is known as a paradise for smell. It has many perfume museums, laboratories and production plants.

In this famous perfume town, Dai Junling's Malaysian bestie Huang Yishi received the visit of Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi.

Huang Yishi's perfume studio is in an inconspicuous old house in the town.

There are many spice shops and perfume museums in the town of Grasse. Huang Yishi took Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi to visit the perfume museum here to learn about the process of making perfume and experience the fun of making perfume by hand in her studio.

The entire town of Grasse is built on the mountain. The steep steps are like winding belts, stringing together the scattered tower buildings and narrow stone roads in the town. In the hills near the town of Grasse, a quiet valley is looming, and a winding country road is divided in the middle. A stream called Sevanni flows peacefully, and the flat rose and jasmine fields on the other side are the world-famous perfume holy land. This flower field called Le Petit Campadieu, which means "God's little camp" in French, is the world's most famous perfume raw material supplier.

Huang Yishi introduced to Li Xiaofan and others that the town of Grasse was originally famous for the leather industry, and later transformed and developed the flower industry due to environmental pollution. Later, some people used local materials to squeeze the petals to extract essential oils.

Since the heyday of European perfume craftsmanship, the fashion-loving French have been most fond of perfume. In order to support the growing perfume industry and meet the increasing demand for raw materials, cities in southern France began to grow flowers in large quantities. Grasse is one of them, and as many as 7 million kilograms of petals are collected in this area every year.

With abundant sunshine, abundant water sources, developed planting industry, and unique natural environment, coupled with the improvement of production technology after the Industrial Revolution, the perfume manufacturing industry in Grasse has developed very rapidly, and the emergence of new products has earned Grasse the title of "World Perfume Capital".

Huang Yishi originally studied business at the nearby University of Nice, but later became fascinated by the perfumes of the small town of Grasse. She signed up for training at the Perfume Academy here at her own expense and became a perfumer.

In that academic year of training, each of their trainees had to master more than 300 kinds of synthetic and natural fragrances, and conduct blind tests from time to time, which was dreamy and desirable...

Huang Yishi introduced that everyone's sense of smell is different, and their talents are also different.

"For perfumers like us, perfume and smell are our lifelong exploration and experiment, which will never end. In addition to perfume making here, my partners and I will also take a lot of time to travel around the world, personally experience the fragrance of various plants and umami in nature, and find inspiration for making perfume. When our new works are given to some teachers who have been engaged in perfume making for decades and let them smell our works, they sometimes still sigh: It turns out that these materials mixed together have such an effect!

When ordinary people like Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi are already intoxicated by the mixed perfume smell, Huang Yishi and others only need to take a light sniff to accurately determine the dozens of ingredients contained in any perfume they bought in Paris.

Tang Xinyi was impressed by Huang Yishi's amazing sense of smell. During this trip, she also fell deeply in love with Grasse, a perfume town.

"Yishi, you should open a perfume studio in Orchard Road, Singapore. I think there must be a market for it! "Tang Xinyi said to Huang Yishi.

Grass is an authentic perfume production area. Many people come here to mix and buy perfumes that are exclusive to their tastes. Tang Xinyi found that the price of perfume here is much lower than the price sold in stores in big cities like Paris and Singapore. It is cheap and good quality with a high cost performance.

"I have thought about it, but I don't have money. My family finally supported me to finish college in Nice. Later, I used the money I earned from part-time work to complete the course of the Perfume Academy. Now my perfume studio has not been opened for a long time. The money I earned was spent on traveling and buying perfume instruments and equipment. Where can I get money to open a store in Orchard Road..." Huang Yishi sighed softly.

Li Xiaofan smiled and said, "Yishi, our company has a venture capital fund. We can invest in your perfume studio project."

"Mr. Li, if your fund is willing to invest in our studio, that would be great! ”

In fact, for Li Xiaofan, investing in this perfume studio does not cost much money, and there is no need to use venture capital funds.

In Grasse Perfume Town, Li Xiaofan, Tang Xinyi and Huang Yishi had a simple dinner, briefly talked about some details of the cooperation, and then returned to the hotel they stayed in Cannes.

Cannes is a famous tourist destination in Europe and a social gathering place for international celebrities. It is famous for its international film festival. The sea here is blue, the climate is mild, and the sun is bright. It is a holiday resort.

When Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi were walking along the beach in Cannes, they found that the legendary Film Palace where the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony was held was not as grand as they had imagined. From a distance, it looked like a workers' cultural palace in the county.

There were many tourists from all over the world taking photos in front of the Cannes Film Festival Palace.

Looking at the Film Palace and smelling the perfume of Huang Yishi Studio left on Tang Xinyi, Li Xiaofan suddenly remembered a movie from his previous life, "Perfume". The Chinese name of this movie is very beautiful and literary, but the English name is "The Story of Amurderer", "The Story of a Murderer"!

The movie describes a genius Grenouille who does not interact with humans and has an extremely sensitive sense of smell. In order to pursue the most perfect fragrance in the world, he is willing to kill people. The plot is so exaggerated and thrilling that it left a deep impression on Li Xiaofan.

The protagonist of the movie, Grenouille, is a young man who has no smell but has an extremely sensitive sense of smell. He was abandoned by his mother in the fish market when he was young and was sold to a leather worker when he grew up. He accidentally discovered the unique scent of young women, and after accidentally killing a young girl, he became obsessed with killing young women to obtain their unique scent to make perfume...

In this movie, for the protagonist Grenouille, the best perfume in the world is the body odor of a young girl!