International Perfume Museum reopens
The International Perfume Museum in Grasse, the home of France’s luxury perfume trade, is to reopen tomorrow following an €11m renovation and expansion project.
The International Perfume Museum in Grasse, the home of France’s luxury perfume trade, is to reopen tomorrow following an €11m renovation and expansion project.
The museum, created in 1989, is now double its original size at 3,500 square metres. Adjoining buildings have been annexed by means of a transparent nave, part of architect Frédéric Jung’s design which centres around the building’s 14 Century rampart.
More than 5,000 objects from all five continents are exhibited at the museum, tracing the history of perfumes, soaps and cosmetics over the last four thousand years.