A very exciting (free) tour! - The tour is offered in French, English and German. You learn a lot about the development of perfume production in Grasse. At the end you also get a very good perfume consultation. There are very few places where you can sample this kind of perfumes. Grasse is definitely one of the must-see locations if you are interested in this wonderful craft!

I'm not a big perfume fan (I dislike strong fragrances actually), but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of things to do in Grasse. The reviews here seemed pretty positive, and it was free, so my wife and I decided to walk over to the Fragonard Musee and check it all out. We entered on the southwest side where there's a small reception desk and some interesting displays about the history of perfumes and the museum itself. Heading down 2 flights, we went to the tour desk and waited about 25mins for a tour in English. The tour takes you through an actual production area, some examples of stills and maceration tanks (not used here), to a working "bottling line", the maturation tank room, and a soap pressing room (very cool to watch) and some other stuff. Of course the tour ends in the gift shop, which has an overwhelming mix of strong scents that could give one a headache, but there's no push to buy anything and it's easy to slip away unnoticed if you like. My wife bought some things of course, but the prices actually seemed pretty reasonable (like a big bar of soap with one of their signature scents like the ones we saw them making in the room underneath for 6e). If you are like me, who can get a headache from someone with too much perfume, maybe wear a covid face mask :) Fresh air was very welcome afterwards (only sales area has strong scents). The bottom level has nice restrooms that you can get to in emergency just by walking thru the museum. Fragonard also has a free art museum nearby that we saw the day before, and there's a free costume museum on the same block. Also very nice and zero push to buy anything; they seem very sincere when they say "entree libre". I'm now a fan of Fragonard.

This is a great place to visit for an hour or so. The small museum on the top floor has some interesting artefacts and history about the perfume world, then the short guided tour (in a choice of languages) is well worth taking part in. Best of all, it’s all free. The shop is full of delightful products that you’ll be tempted to get. As they range from about €6 to several hundred, there’s plenty of choice.