Musée international de la parfumerie, Perfume museum in Grasse, France

The Musée international de la parfumerie is a museum in Grasse dedicated to fragrance and perfume, located in the city famous for this craft. It displays antique bottles, historical distillation equipment, and plant specimens organized across different exhibition sections.

The museum was founded in 1989 and traces how perfumery developed from ancient times through to contemporary industrial practices. It shows how the methods and techniques evolved across different historical periods.

The museum's gardens, the Jardins du Musée International de la Parfumerie, were designed in 2003 to conserve perfume plants for the Pays de Grasse and became an external part of the museum in 2012. They lie about 10 km away at Mouans-Sartoux, on 2 to 3 hectares of limestone soil with a small canal, and are split into a scent garden and an open area of native species. La Bastide du Parfumeur, a privately funded project from 2007, recalls the tradition of perfume-plant growing.

The museum spans five buildings over seven levels and terraces, with each floor devoted to a period from Antiquity to the present. The perfume gardens are not on site: they lie about 10 km away at Mouans-Sartoux, so allow separate travel time. A 14th-century rampart bounds the north side, and the entrance pavilion is the 19th-century facade of the former Hugues Aîné perfumery.

Among the exhibits is a perfume organ from the second half of the 20th century, a desk-like piece on which small bottles of scent are arranged in semicircles on tiers. The collection also holds a travel nécessaire that belonged to Marie-Antoinette and a set of perfume and cosmetics labels donated in 1931 by Countess Savigny de Moncorps.