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{Unknown Speaker 1}
--before we continue on to the second half. Thank you very much. [[audience clapping]]

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
The weather conditions and soil conditions change the characteristic of the oils.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
And then they must be carefully checked in the laboratory before they are sent to be made into perfume.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
The final person who does make the test is a man who is called the Great Nose and he is the most highly paid person in the perfume industry and it is behind his locked doors that the famous perfumes of France are created.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
He is also the one who decides whether the basic oil is satisfactory enough to be used in the making of the perfumes.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
And he will sit here for sometimes several weeks smelling strips of test paper before he decides to add another ingredient.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
And sometimes it will take a Great Nose 10 years of such experimenting before he comes up with a new perfume.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
And a good french perfume is a combination of 70 to 80 synthetic and natural ingredients. So, ladies, please cherish your french perfume.

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{Unknown Speaker 2}
But flowers aren't used for making just perfumes. And before we leave this area of France we are going to visit the largest rose research company in the world, owned by the Meilland family.