Outdoor gardens Chez Isabel. In this place grow and sell silver and scents. Petit France is a small village on the island of Reunion, a French overseas department in the southwest Indian Ocean sea. It lies on the western slope of the mountain top called Maido in the mountains of San Pablo, itself located in the west of the island. Its economy is based on the distillation of perfumes, and tourist activity enjoyed participating on the label Creole Villages.