THE FRENCH RIVIERA · GRASSE PERFUME WORKSHOPS
An hour at a blending bench and you leave with a bottle nobody else owns and a formula number to reorder it. These 15 span the Fragonard, Molinard and Galimard houses, the short Nice-based sessions and the full countryside days, with prices, bench sizes and what you actually take home.
Small-group day trip from Nice to Eze and Monaco, including Fragonard perfumery, a Formula One circuit lap, and hotel pickup.
“Amazing trip, great value for money with a friendly and informative guide. You definitely won’t be disappointed if you book this trip, I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.”
Make your own Eau de Toilette in Eze with an English Fragonard factory tour, sea views, and a 12ml bottle to take home.
“A true blessing!!! We had such a great time! My true self came out in the parfum activity, and Dominik helped me to see it. Hooray Fragonard!”
Short, hands-on Fragonard tour in Grasse. Watch perfume made, then create a 12ml Eau de Toilette using the olfactiv pyramid.
“This was a fun and informative tour, that was expertly run. Everyone enjoyed touring Fragonard and making their own customized scents!”
Create a custom Molinard perfume in Nice or Grasse, guided through notes and chemistry, then take home a 30ml Eau de Parfum.
“Guide gave a bit of history first. Really enjoyed the activity. Fun, interesting, different. Packaged very nicely! Also bought many other perfumes and soaps at the venue, which were perfect affordable gifts, including roller ball perfumes! We loved the experience!”
Half-day countryside tour from Nice to Grasse perfume town, Gourdon views, Tourette violet village, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence streets.
“Christian our driver guide was excellent.. amazing abilities to get us close to the sites with drop offs and pick-ups. Such a competent and quick driver on those scary ( for me) roads. Maximum time in each location. (The perfume factory ws is interesting but could spend less time there . )”
Provence countryside day trip from Nice with Cannes highlights, a Fragonard perfume visit in Grasse, Gourdon views, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
“Pick up at hotel and return to hotel so you can truly relax all day and not worry about traffic. Small group makes it very intimate so you never feel like being part of a herd! Guide was a local who is very well informed. His English was impeccable because he was born in the UK.”
Create your own Grasse perfume inside Molinard’s historic factory. Choose from 90 essences, take home 50ml, and get 20% off.
“Excellent fun creating your own perfume with over 50 different essential oils. Afterwards your creation is registered and you can reorder online from the factory.”
Create your own Molinard perfume in central Nice. In 1 hour, blend from 90 essences, take home a 50 ml bottle and diploma.
“Our guide was super helpful in picking the right combination of fragrances to make the “ultimate” perfume for you! Highly recommended if you love perfume and want something that is specific to you and you alone… maybe even your signature scent!”
Make your own Molinard scent in a one-hour hands-on workshop in Nice, learn perfume types, and take home a 50 ml bottle.
“Such a fun experience. The perfumer was very knowledgeable. It was amazing to see my fragrance come together! Would highly recommend!”
Make a custom 30 ml perfume atomizer in Grasse at La Maison Molinard, a 20-minute small-group workshop in Provence.
“Really enjoyed this activity. It was a small group of 5, we were able to smell 3 base scents and 6 notes scents. Once we had decided on the base scent and notes scent, we got to put the perfume into the bottle. I did this activity by myself and 20 minutes was plenty of time. The guide was very nice, she explained in French and then English for me. She was very helpful and made sure I was okay”
Medieval villages day trip from Nice with Grasse perfume, Gourdon fortress views, Tourrettes-sur-Loup violets, and Saint-Paul ramparts.
“Very much enjoyed our tour. Nabil was knowledgeable, interesting, accommodating. He made sure we all had a comfortable and enjoyable experience. Absolutely recommend his tour.”
Make your own Molinard eau de parfum in Grasse, taste 90 essences, learn top-heart-base notes, and take home a 50 ml bottle.
“So unique and special! I thoroughly enjoyed it and so did my four adult daughters! We all walked away with our own bottle of perfume and loved each one! They complimented each of us! The teacher was very helpful in editing our combination of scents.”
Small-group half-day from Nice to Grasse’s Fragonard perfume museum plus medieval hill villages, with hotel pickup and guided factory tour.
“We were attracted to this great tour because it only included the small medieval towns and Grasse, where my grandfather learned to make perfume at the same time as Fragonard. It was a special tour because of that and our fantastic guide Phillipe! He made it special with anecdotes and history facts. We world love to return one day. Definitively with booking. Merci!”
Grasse, Valbonne and Gourdon day tour with Fragonard perfume tour and Bellet wine tasting. Small group from Cannes or Nice.
“We had a lot of good fortune on this day out. To begin with, all of the others booked on the trip dropped out, so we had a tour by Sebastian all to ourselves. We were also blessed by brilliant weather. It was a sunny day with good visibility, which made the landscapes spectacular and the view from Gourdon absolutely brilliant. Sebastian was good at keeping the pace of the tour moving along so that we arrived in the right place at the right time. For me, the highlight was the lunch in Valbonne. For my wife, she rather enjoyed the tour of Fragonard in Grasse. We both found the…”
Small-group day trip from Nice to Grasse and four medieval villages, with Galimard perfume factory tour, English guide, air-conditioned van.
“Lawrence is a great tour guide and a great driver! We got to see some great medieval towns and great scenery, all in one day.”
Decide what kind of day it is first. The ranking sorts out the rest.
