Destinations

Local perfumes of France

The home of modern perfumery. Grasse, in the south, grows and distills the raw materials; Paris is where the great houses sell them. Come for historic flagships and for workshops where you blend your own.

The Eiffel Tower on a clear summer day, seen from the Trocadéro gardens and fountains

Cities

What perfume to buy in Èze
Èze has perfume houses with free guided tours of distillation, enfleurage and vintage machinery, plus a workshop where visitors blend their own eau de cologne.
1 workshop · 3 listings
What perfume to buy in Grasse
The old perfume town above Cannes, where you can tour working factories for free, make your own scent at a house that has been here for centuries, and shop small local perfumers in the old town.
3 workshops · 12 listings
What perfume to buy in Lyon
Lyon has small perfume workshops where visitors blend their own scent at a perfume organ or bar, working with essential oils and natural materials in French, in groups of up to eight.
3 workshops · 3 listings
What perfume to buy in Nice
Nice has perfume workshops where visitors from age 9 blend their own eau de parfum from a range of essences with a perfume expert in a shop.
3 workshops · 3 listings
What perfume to buy in Paris
Blend your own perfume in an hour, visit the flagships of houses founded here, then hunt for rare scents in the niche shops.
6 workshops · 11 listings