As part of its reopening in 2008, the museum wanted to create an alternative approach, paralleling the main exhibition and presenting an insight into the artistic world of perfumery It gave several internationally renowned contemporary artists carte blanche to develop some of the museum's interior and exterior spaces.

 Asking questions of the visitor, emotionally stimulating and challenging them while complementing the museum's main theme, provides the exhibition with a genuine multi-sensory dimension.

Perfumes and their use dates back to the dawn of time, developing alongside civilisations.

It seems that it was in the Middle East, around 7000 BC when the first objects considered as perfume and cosmetics vases appeared. These civilisations employed various odorants, mainly resins widely used as early as 4000 BC in ritual fumigations in censers or incense burners, reserved for the gods and reserved for royal families. 

Safeguarding a heritage

Founded in 1989, The International Perfume Museum, the only museum of its kind in the world, is located in the iconic town of Grasse, the birthplace of luxury perfumes of which France was the initiator. Dedicated to one of the most prestigious traditional French activities, the International Perfume Museum is a public institution labelled "Museum of France" allowing visitors to discover the history and uniqueness of the profession of manufacturers and large perfumery houses.