Editor’s Note
**Editor’s Note:** This piece highlights the artistry and local craftsmanship behind Trois-Trois Boutique in Castelnaudary, where owners Astrid and Jean-Charles curate a sensory experience of beauty, quality, and scent.
Castelnaudary. Trois-Trois Boutique: Beauty, Quality, and Scents
Astrid and Jean-Charles in the jewelry workshop.
“3 / 3”, but there are only two of them. Astrid and Jean-Charles, two true artists, have set up their workshops and boutique on Rue Gambetta in Castelnaudary, a store where they also sell the work of other local artisans.
Decorative wooden objects from Salles-sur-L’Hers, scented soaps from Rémy in Bize-Minervois, “doudous” and other rag dolls made by Marie in Calmont, essential oils with a thousand scents from the Domaine de Besplas in Villasavary, and magnificent framed posters, works by a graphic designer from Carcassonne. All beauty and quality, with jewelry and extraordinary candles as the centerpiece. The jewelry is made on-site by Astrid, in silver with the magnificent blue stone “Lapis Lazuli” found in Chile and Afghanistan. After 7,000 years, this stone is the oldest used for jewelry in human history. The candles are the result of Jean-Charles’s wizardry. An artist first and foremost like Astrid, he transforms into a chemist, perfumer, and ingenious tinkerer. He uses only rapeseed wax, typical of Occitanie, and has created ingots, small, extremely fragrant candles that are burned in handmade candle holders. Jean-Charles is even the only one to make candles wrapped in cardboard on a plaster base (fireproof). He creates custom-made candles with your choice of scent upon request.
The scents emanating from the 3/3 boutique of the Curutchet couple, as you pass by, draw you to cross its threshold, and there, you discover a true whirlwind of beautiful things.