The Musée du Parfum (), also known as the Fragonard Musée du Parfum (), is a French private museum of
perfume
Perfume (, ) is a mixture of fragrance, fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), Fixative (perfumery), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agre ...
located at 9 rue Scribe, in the
9th arrondissement of
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
.
History and exhibits
Fragonard Parfumeur established the museum in 1983, within a
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last ...
town-house built in 1860. Its rooms contain period furnishings and perfume exhibits, including antique
perfume bottles, containers, toiletry sets, and
still
A still is an apparatus used to distillation, distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively Boiling, boil and then cooling to Condensation, condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic Distillation#Laboratory_procedures, ...
s for steam
distillation
Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixt ...
of perfume extracts.
Displays show how perfumes are made today and present the history of perfume manufacturing and packaging. A
perfume organ on display has tiers of ingredient bottles arranged around a balance used to mix fragrances.
In 2014, the Fragonard company acquired ownership of the real estate site located at the address of the Square de l'Opéra.
See also
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Théâtre-Musée des Capucines, another Fragonard perfume museum in Paris
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List of museums in Paris
There are around 130 museums in Paris, France, within city limits. This list also includes suburban museums within the "Grand Paris" area, such as the Air and Space Museum.
The sixteen :fr: Musées de la Ville de Paris, museums of the City of Pari ...
References
External links
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Museums in Paris
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Fashion museums in France
Museums established in 1983
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