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Sniffapalooza Travels: Grasse

Thinking about traveling with Sniffapalooza but not sure what to expect? Here’s a look at our 2010 journey to Grasse, the Birthplace of Perfumery. 

There’s no better way to tell than to show, so check out our daily schedule and photo highlights!


SNIFFAPALOOZA GRASSE ITINERARY

Sunday, July 4
Bienvenue!

3:30 PM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Walking

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Musée International de la Parfumerie – 2 bvd du Jeu de Ballon                                     

Monday, July 5

8:15 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Motorcoach

9:00 AM – 1:30 PM – Mane – Welcome Coffee – Guided Tour – Lunch

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Robertet – Factory Tour – Meet the Perfumers

Tuesday, July 6

8:45 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Motorcoach

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Cannes, Antibes, St Paul de Vence – Guided Tour
    
Wednesday, July 7

8:15 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Motorcoach

9:30 AM – 12:30 PM – IFF –  Laboratoire Monique Remy

Lunch Break

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Firmenich – Extraction Site and Factory Tour

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM  –  Nobile 1942 Perfumer Marie Duchene Presentation @ Hotel

Thursday, July 8

8:45 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Motorcoach

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Nice and Monte Carlo – Guided Tour

   
Friday, July 9

9:00 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby – Walking

9:15 AM – 2:00 PM – Molinard – 60 bvd Victor-Hugo

Guided Tour –Perfume Creation Workshop – Buffet Lunch

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM – Fragonard – VIP Visit – 20 bvd Fragonard

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM – Galimard – Guided Tour – 73 route de Cannes, BP 42090

Saturday, July 10

7:15 AM – Meet in Hotel Lobby

Transfer to Nice Airport and Train Station

Au Revoir!

Musée International de la Parfumerie

 

Perfume Seminar at Mane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robertet

On the Red Carpet at Cannes

Rose and Lavender Ice Cream

Picasso Museum, Antibes

St. Paul de Vence

 

IFF – Laboratoire Monique Remy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmenich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nobile 1942 presentation

 

 

 

Candied Clementines at Florian Confiserie, Nice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monte Carlo, Monaco

 

 

 

 

 

Molinard

 

 

 

Tarinologie – Perfume Creation Workshop

 

 

 

Garden Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fragonard

 

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Barcelona Bound


We love fragrance and we love to travel. Combine the two and you’ve got Sniffapalooza Barcelona – our fifth annual trip abroad! Stayed tuned for recaps of our prior journeys, so you can see how we travel, Sniffapalooza style!

We’ll be taking a small group of 20 – 25 travelers along with us to discover the sights, scents and tastes of Barcelona. And best of all, we’ve got inside access to the world of fragrance!

Saturday, November 5 — Saturday, November 12, 2011

Six nights accommodations at a charming hotel in Barcelona near Las Ramblas, double occupancy (single occupancy available at an additional cost), private bath, A/C, Satellite TV, wireless high-speed internet access, swimming pool and sauna, breakfast each morning, four days of Private Motorcoach, including day-trips with English-speaking guide to Montserrat Museum & Monastery; to Salvador Dali Museum & Theatre in Figueres & Girona,  a comprehensive city tour of Antonio Gaudi architecture, sojourns  to  perfume factories and flower fields,  events sponsored by raw materials houses,  presentations by perfumers, private visits to niche perfume boutiques,  including all taxes & service fees, and airport transfers – all for the incredibly low price of under $1500.00!

(Price does not include airfare. Current roundtrip rate from JFK/NYC to BCN/Barcelona is under $800.00. You may be able to use your frequent flyer miles and save $$!)

Our days will be spent in sensory-related tours of museums, laboratories, factories, flower fields… and browsing amazing shops and markets for locally made olive oil, soaps, potpourri, china, leather goods, textiles, and of course – fragrance! We will be immersed in the arts and culture of Barcelona, venturing down roads not traveled by the average tourist. We’ve culled lists from the experts, and we know about the restaurant with its own signature fragrance, where the best ‘secret’ martini bar is, and where to find the most extraordinary ice cream in Barcelona!

There’s no better way to see the world and we hope you will join us!

Click HERE for more details and to request booking information.

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Blackberry Hotel

I love staying in hotels. Always have, since I was a little kid. Doesn’t matter where it is – I’ve stayed at the uber-fabulous, four-star Gritti Palace in Venice, Italy and the spartan, no-star Camelot Motor Inn in Cape May, NJ – and I get the same sense of excitement when I walk into the lobby for the first time.

Here we were on Fourth of July weekend, at yet another Courtyard by Marriott. I knew what to expect – I could describe the surroundings to you blindfolded. I closed my eyes and visualized the usual pedestrian earth tones of terra cotta, deep Indian red, tangerine and chocolate brown to compliment the faux-adobe stylized lobby. Accents of huge earthenware vases with spindly, sad pussy willows sticking out of them. A fake fireplace with brass kokopelli figurines dancing across the mantel. And an overwhelming aroma of cloyingly sweet citrus-cinnamon potpourri, so strong and pungent that my eyes would begin to tear as soon as we crossed the threshold.

But as the automatic doors flung open and we rolled our luggage in, my nostrils immediately perked up and stood at attention. What a lovely, familiar smell! I stopped, inhaled. Yes… that was blackberry… and musk. My sensory memory kicked in without missing a beat. Our hotel smelled like L’Artisan Parfumeur Mure et Musc, one of my favorite fragrances! Or was it more like Trish McEvoy No. 9 Blackberry & Vanilla Musk, in the cool triangular bottle? No, it was definitely the L’Artisan! And I couldn’t be happier… because at least for the weekend, I was living in a perfume bottle.