The Grand Musée du Parfum was a Paris perfumery museum that operated from December 22, 2016, to July 6, 2018. It was founded by entrepreneur Guillaume de Maussion and overseen by industry experts including

Jean-Claude Ellena Jean-Claude Ellena (born 1947, Grasse, France) is a French perfumer and writer. Career At an early age, Ellena picked jasmine with his grandmother in Grasse to sell to perfumers. Beginning with menial jobs, he became an apprentice at the fact ...

, then the in-house perfumer at Hermes;

Mathilde Laurent Mathilde Laurent is a French perfumer. After studying perfumery at ISIPCA in Versailles, Laurent began her career as an apprentice to Jean-Paul Guerlain. She went on to work at Guerlain for 11 years. Since 2006, she has been the in-house perfum ...

, house perfumer at

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; and

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, director of fragrance for

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. The museum, developed over two years for $7 million, was located in the ''

hôtel particulier An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

'' (townhouse mansion) at 73,

rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré () is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Relatively narrow and nondescript, especially in comparison to the nearby Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being one of the most lu ...

, once the residence of the Roederer champagne family and later the location of fashion house

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. Entry cost between 5 and 14.50 Euro. Exhibits included a recreation of the laboratory of French perfume house Houbigant (founded in 1775 at 19, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré), using items on loan from the

Musée Carnavalet The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant who ...

(the museum of the history of Paris). It also had a "garden of scent" with white sculptures that each released different scents.

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