MUSÉE DU PARFUM FRAGONARD
Museum where you can discover the secrets of perfume making in a fun and interactive way
Opened in 2015, this perfume museum is sure to appeal to lovers of fine fragrances. Behind the fascinating tour lies the scent of the renowned Parfumerie Fragonard, a family-run business founded in 1926 in Grasse, a mecca for the French perfume industry. The perfumery was named after Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), the famous painter to Louis XV, whose father was a Grasse perfumery glove-maker.
The museum's collections were assembled in the 1950s by Jean-François Costa, father of the current directors, Anne, Françoise and Agnès Costa. They include a range of decorative art linked to the art of perfume, enriching the Maison Fragonard with a cultural and museum dimension. Following on from the rue Scribe museum and the Capucines theater-museum, this is an original, didactic museum that reveals all the secrets of perfume. The premises lend themselves to such a display. The Musée du Parfum is housed in the former Eden Théâtre, an Orientalist-style building that was later partially demolished and converted into a velocipedic merry-go-round. Restructured to house the museum, the space retains the decorative vocabulary associated with 19th-century industrial modernity, combining stucco, Eiffel beams, glass paving, brick walls and an elegant glass roof. Magnificent bottle collections. Lately, the museum has even extended as far as rue Scribe. An unusual tour that lasts around 30 minutes - and it's free!
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L’accueil des groupes en accès et visite libre demandant une organisation particulière, nous vous prions de bien vouloir contacter le service tourisme"
Nous avons même proposé de faire des petits groupes et nous avons voulu juste que les lycéens traversent le musée et observé le cadre mais les hôtes d'accueil ils n'ont même pas fait l'effort de trouver une solution. C'était un vendredi matin à 11h, le musée était vide et personne devant la porte sauf nous. Nous avons même proposé à entrer en petit groupe de 7 personnes avec des intervalles et l'hôtesse, a dit non, puis que je vous ai vu !Nous sommes vraiment été déçus et c'est dégueulasse pour les lycéens. aucune interdiction n'est affiché pour les groupes de franciliens sauf pour les touristes.