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Paris Perfume Museum
The Musée de La Parfumerie Fragonard is Paris' fragrant Perfume Museum
Ah, leave it to the Fench to have a museum devoted to expensive smells. OK, so this is essentially a corporate shill for the Fragonard company, but at least it provides a glimpse into the history and rarified world of extracting oils and essenses and using them to craft cloying scents.
The main museum, in an 1860 townhouse near the Opera Garnier, is packed with historic perfume paraphenalia.
Nearby, at 39 blvd des Capucines, they've taken over a classic 1900 theater and turned into into a mock-up of a 19th century perfume factory, complete with distillery devices in gleaming copper and demos on the fine art of making beautiful smells—naturally, with a Fragonard boutique attached.
www.fragonard.com
9 rue Scribe, 9eme (Metro: Opera)
Closed Sun Oct 15-Dec 14 and Jan 16-Mar14
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This article was last updated in December 2006. All information was accurate at the time.
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