I was vacationing in Nice and being from the states, wanted to pick up a perfume from comptoir sud…read morepacifique which is difficult to find there. ok, so to be clear I'm an American with basic French skills- enough to communicate what I am looking for and what I want to try, which is technically all I need. Being from the states, I'm used to buying perfumes at sephora or department stores, all of which have a liberal open door policy in terms of trying fragrances; not so with rose de france. All the perfumes are stocked behind counters and if you want to smell a fragrance you have to ask the associate to let you try some. Overall the lady I got was very miserly with letting me sample the various fragrances, she would take them out one at a time and would spray onto the test strips and only give me the test strips. I smelled 3 fragrances and felt obligated to rush and buy one because of her bored/annoyed attitude which made me feel as if I was inconveniencing her. Totally unprofessional. In general, French customer service leave a lot to be desired. This is more of a place to go if you already KNOW what you want and are looking to pick it up, NOT a place to play around and find your scent. That being said, the prices did seem cheaper than regular retail. purchased my 3.3 bottle for 49euro, reg price is 70 euro.