Perfume Through The Ages
If you would like to know, how the life of French perfumers changed from XVI tо XX, you should visit the
Shamrol castle, that was built in XVI century. It is located 100 km from Paris in the valley of the Loire.
Each room of the castle is dedicated to a certain century and represents the interior, in which the perfumers worked in XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX centuries. The rooms are full of authentic equipment and furniture. Here one can notice boxes, in which travelers brought unknown plants and spices, aromatic balls, hanging from the ceiling, dry mixtures of herbs in dark and dry rooms, the windows of which were always closed for plague not to get into the house. The museum helps us move to the period of time, when each aristocrat had a small make up chest with many departments, where all the make up means, powders and expensive, hand-made perfumes were stored.
Beside this, in the castle one can also see a collection of posters, dedicated to perfumes, and listen to an unusual organ, that “plays” with 270 essences and synthetic ingredients, or walk through the dark rooms, hardly lighted by small lamps, where thousands of flacons, containing old vintage aromas, are stored. Around the castle one can see a beautiful garden, with grapes, rose, lavender, different medical plants and other plants, that have been used as a palette for perfumers for centuries.
In the room, dedicated to XVIII century we can see how the perfumer Jean-Louis Fargeon created aromas for his mistress – the famous Maria-Antoinette. Inspired by one of his formula, modern perfumer Francis Kurkdjian created the ancient aroma. Today it is sold in Versale castle under the name M.A. Sillage de la Reine.
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