Olfactory initiation at Château Borély

This week I had the pleasure of leading an olfactory discovery workshop for children aged 8 to 12 as part of the exhibition "Blows: 10 designers · 10 years · 10 vases".

The activity, which consisted of introducing the children to the materials featured in the three perfumes commissioned by Château Borély, was quite a discovery for them.

Questions were flying in all directions, comments were rife on these olfactory materials which were for the most part unknown to them, such as:

- Opoponax essential oil with its characteristic Paris mushroom odor

- essential oil of hinoki wood, this cypress endemic to Japan

- birch essential oil and its fireplace smell

- bran absolute which smells of wholemeal flour

- cassia absolute, this flower, cousin of mimosa, which gives off a smell of mud and putrid water.

A fantastic experience to be repeated.