Eze--The Scent Stays With You

The little town of Eze is situated about 20 minutes East of Nice. An absolutely beautiful place perched on top of a mountain. It's extremely small and can be toured easily in an afternoon. The main business that I found was the parfumerie, Fragamond. I did buy some perfume, which is lovely, but they must have sent me home with a scented card or something (which I cannot locate), because every time I'm in my room, I can smell it. I have no clue where it's coming from, not the scent of the perfume I bought and frankly, I'm not too keen on it. Luckily, I leave tomorrow and will hopefully not bring the scent with me. And no, it's not me. So my perfume experience was interesting. I figured I would go on a tour through the factory to see how the stuff is made. There was a group of college kids about to start and English tour, so they let me join that one. About 15 minutes into it I was bored to tears (my tour guide was not so good and the group was huge)--plus, it was a gorgeous day outside and I wanted to be part of it. I discovered a door on the opposite side of the factory that led outside to the parking lot and I could see the stairs to climb up to the old town, which is where I wanted to go; but, I couldn't get to it from my side, we were blocked. My group headed up one staircase and in the middle, it crossed the staircase which led to the other side of the factory, which had access to the door. Because I'm so smart, I thought I could easily hop over one side to other. Mind you, they were metal railings, not much to grab onto, and I was wearing a dress and didn't want to flash the stragglers in my group who could still see me. I almost thank God they were still there since I was so concerned about being humiliated, it was the only thing that kept me upright. My "hop" was not so graceful and I think I pulled a muscle in my arm while trying to prevent myself from falling smack on my face (and of course then rolling down the cement stairs). Not pretty, but I made it and quickly ran out the door, across the parking lot to the stairs up to old town in order to get out of sight of my tour group, never having to see them again! The old town was absolutely beautiful. All these small windy stone streets. The views across the ocean and mountains were so picturesque. A fun place to go see and glad I returned unscathed.

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