Musée du Parfum

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  • Address
    9 rue Scribe, 2e
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  • Phone
    01 47 42 04 56
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Opéra

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Lonely Planet review

The Perfume Museum run by the perfumerie Fragonard is a fragrant collection opposite the Palais Garnier tracing the history of scent and perfume-making from ancient Egypt (those mummies wouldn't have smelled very nice undoused) to today's designer brands.

A short distance to the south is the Théâtre-Musée des Capucines, a second branch, housed in an early 20th-century theatre, that concentrates largely on bottling (for example, crystal flasks from Bohemia) and packaging the heady substance. There's a decent short film here and, of course, a shop selling Fragonard scent.