If you ask children what they want to be when they grow up, they will typically answer with a profession they have seen, either in daily life or on television: veterinarian, pilot, ice skater, or actress. How many times, however, have you heard a child say, "I want to be a perfumer"?
This is no doubt the kind of answer that inspires chuckles and guffaws from parents and adults who wonder how their child ever came up with "such a crazy notion."
However, for the visually or hearing impaired who attend the "Provence dans Tous les Sens (Provence in Every Sense)" summer programs in Provence, France, the idea of becoming a perfumer is not laughed at but rather approached with encouragement.