Blend your own perfume in an hour, visit the flagships of houses founded here, then hunt for rare scents in the niche shops.
Guide last checked 29 Sept 2026. Every fact links to its source.
Founded in 2007 as Papillon Rouge by Virginie Chone, who had been a marketing director at Guerlain. Its perfumes are composed in Grasse, and it sells them from its own boutique in the Galerie Vivienne, a covered arcade near the Palais Royal.
Paris niche perfume house started in 2017 by Ludovic Bonneton. Its perfumes are numbered by scent family and each is built around three main ingredients. The house says its perfumes are made in France, and it runs two boutiques in the Marais.
Houbigant is a French perfume house founded in Paris in 1775. It is known for fragrances such as Fougère Royale and Quelques Fleurs.
Parfums Dusita was founded in Paris in 2016 by Pissara Umavijani, a self-taught perfumer born and raised in Bangkok. The house calls itself independent, labels its perfumes made in France and sources materials through a composition house near Grasse.
Pierre Guillaume Paris is an independent French perfume house with its own manufacture in the Auvergne. It sells from its own boutique by the Palais Royal in Paris and two shops in Clermont-Ferrand.
One of the oldest perfume houses in Grasse. Galimard says it was founded in 1747 by Jean de Galimard, who supplied the court of Louis XV. Today it runs a factory museum and a perfume creation studio in Grasse, plus shops in the old town.
Flagship boutiques and perfume shops in Paris.
The house's own boutique inside the Galerie Vivienne, a 19th-century covered arcade near the Palais Royal.
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Bon Parfumeur is a Parisian boutique that combines a perfumer's workshop and the founder's apartment.
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The Paris flagship of the 1775 house behind Quelques Fleurs and Fougère Royale. Easiest place to smell the whole range.
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The house's own Paris shop at 10 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, between the Louvre and the Palais-Royal, with a lower level where the old shop's red monkey sculpture now stands. Open Monday to Saturday with a midday break.
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Blend your own scent with an expert and take the bottle home. Check the booking page for the current price. How prices compare in other cities.
The best all-round first workshop. An expert walks you through top, heart and base notes, then you compose your own blend. Your formula is kept on file so you can reorder it.
The quick, budget option. Less creative: everyone follows the guide using pre-picked notes. Minimum age 8.
A Marais studio where you blend your own scent. It says it has over 100 notes to choose from, and it keeps your formula so you can reorder.
Candora Paris runs perfume creation workshops in Le Marais, with public sessions in English and private sessions by appointment. The two-hour workshop lets participants create an Eau de Parfum and take home a 50ml bottle.
Shorter, cheaper version of the Molinard workshop on the Left Bank.
The Paris workshop of Galimard, a Grasse perfume house. You create your own scent and Galimard keeps the formula on file.
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Free guided tours of 30 to 60 minutes through perfume bottles spanning three thousand years. No cloakroom; the tour ends in the shop.
Hours and prices change, so check with the shop before you go.
Works Tuesday to Saturday, since several shops close on Sunday or Monday.
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