The Musée du Parfum, also known as the Fragonard Musée du Parfum, is a French private museum of
perfume
Perfume (, ; french: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. Th ...
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, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
.
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 the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
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 distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been use ...
s for steam
distillation
Distillation, or classical distillation, is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by using selective boiling and condensation, usually inside an apparatus known as a still. Dry distillation is the heat ...
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.
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 museums of the City of Paris are annotated with "VP", as well ...
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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