Sunday, August 16, 2009

Cannes, France

The Norwegian Gem, our ship. Fun fact: Oprah cruised on it the tour before us! That is the only claim to fame I think I have ever had so I am livin it up!Fragonard is a perfume factory we toured. We bought a few bottles while there and now we smell good with out even showering. To say the name though you have to make the french hocking a lugie sound in the middle of the word as in: Fr-(hock the lugie)-onar-(hock another one)-d and then it would be phonetically correct!

They take the flower or whatever and put it into these machine to steam the scent out of it and make the sent pure.



then they bottle the scents
here they filter the want from the not want, like a coffee filter.

Back in the day they would get scent this way. They would take the flowers and lay them on animal lard as shown, once the lard soaked up the sent they would put another layer of flowers on, they would do this over and over until they decided that instead of using one ton of flowers to make one once of scent, they would do it the way now, which is with the steam.These barrels are full of perfume. I tried to steal one but didn't get very far with it. Much harder than just taking a bottle! JK I don't steal sillies.

This is the lab where the noses live. Being a nose is a real job that you have to go to school for 10 years and then internship for a few years until you are a professional nose. 80% are men because a women's sense of smell changes through pregnancy and all the other fun stuff that women have to deal with. But once they are pro noses, they only work a few hours a day and are millionaires. Must be nice.
St. Paul De Vence is a little town where the celebs go to play when they are here for the Cannes Film Festival. It is a little boutiquey area.
This is where the million/billionaires go when they die. I am not quite sure why they need such a view when they are buried 6 ft under. Whatever.

Dog and cat sitting in front of a store, chillaxin.
Shopping boutiques.

Bill lookin modelicious and not even realizing it.
Oh, just some million dollar homes, no biggie.
This is one of the hotels the celebs will stay when they come to the film festival. 5 star of course!

The streets if Cannes


French Riviera



And the beach which had boobs sporadically through it, and naked kids playing in the sand.

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