Once a year the city of Grasse celebrates the ”Perfume Day”, and although this year the date was moved several weeks, I could still participate, as usual. This year's event was dedicated to functional perfumery, that is perfumes for home and personal care detergents. Essence Companies located in Grasse (Robertet, Charabot, Mane, Payan Bertran, Astier Demarest etc.) showed some of their products, both natural and synthetic, that may be found in everyday products: ambrox, verdox and galaxolide for clothes detergents and softeners, levo-carvone in toothpaste, citronnellyle and dihydromyrcenol in dish detergent, floralozone, aldehyde C18 and C14 and gamma nonalactone for shower gels, benjoin, neroli, sandalwood, osmanthus, eliotropine for air fresheners, terpenyle acetate and geraniol for WC tablets... in short, a seemingly endless and very interesting overview on everything that we use everyday in our kitchen, bathroom, etc…