THE ROSE DE GRASSE

If you are going to honour one queen of materials, it has to be the Rose de Grasse, which flourishes on fifty hectares of precious hills nearby.

There, from the month of May and for a short few weeks, the Rose Centifolia, the aptly named one hundred petalled-flower, creates its scented perfume in every shade of pink. The petals are harvested by hand, flower by flower...