Free access or free guided tours
- We like : a very small , charming and fascinating museum
- Duration of free visits : 30 minutes
- Opening hours : every 20 minutes or so (last visit at 5 pm)
- Free access : for all and all year round
- Languages : French and English
- Location : between the Opera and the Madeleine
Self-guided or guided tours of the Fragonard Perfume Museum
Located a stone’s throw from the Opéra Garnier, in a former theater transformed into a velodrome, this private collection belonging to the Costa family presents hundreds of objects related to perfume. It traces the history of perfumery and perfumery, from Antiquity to the present day.
Presented as a cabinet of curiosities, you can discover:
- pharmacy jars
- botanical plates
- Maps
- A perfume organ
- engravings
- stills and storage tanks
- measuring instruments
- Incentese burners from all over the world
APPRENTICE PERFUMER WORKSHOP (FROM 12 YEARS OLD)
The Fragonard Perfume Museum organizes workshops for young people. These workshops are a truly unforgettable, playful and captivating sensory experience. The children leave with a nice 100ml bottle containing their creation and a diploma.
The “Apprentice Perfumer” workshop:
- Theme of the workshops: Create your own scent and personalise your cologne
- for children and teenagers from 12 years old
- Duration: 1h30
- Price: 95€
- Location: in the Perfumer’s Workshop of the Perfume Museum
- By reservation only: at +33 4 93 36 44 66 or by email at [email protected]
We love Fragonard boutiques
Fragonard boutiques still enchant us as much as ever. It’s a gold mine for making gifts: candles (we love the brioche candle), small pouches, scented soaps, all the products from the VRAI range, scarves, embroidered slippers, mini-umbrellas (on the theme of Paris) to slip into a handbag… Several addresses in Paris:
- Fragonard Boutique Haussmann
- Fragonard Boutique Carrousel du Louvre (open Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm)
- Fragonard Boutique, rue des Francs-Bourgeois (open Sunday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
- Fragonard Boutique Bercy (open Sunday from 11am to 8pm)
- Fragonard Boutique Montmartre (open on Sundays from 10:30 am to 7:30 pm)
- Fragonard Boutique Saint-Honoré
