Musée du Parfum
Riad museum tracing perfume craft through a nose's own journey from garden restorer to master blender.
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This guide to the Musée du Parfum in Marrakesh follows Abderrazzak Benchaâbane, a Marrakech botanist who grew up distilling Damascus roses on his uncle's farm, from the day Yves Saint Laurent hired him in 1998 to revive the ruined Jardin Majorelle. It traces how that restoration work led him to try bottling a scent of his own, reaching for a childhood memory rather than the garden's own flowers. The museum sits in a restored riad just steps from the souk's spice stalls, its rooms lined with the raw materials he worked from.
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