Molinard Classic Perfume Workshop in Grasse
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Grasse, France
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- 1 hour (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Grasse is known as one of the world’s top perfume capitals. On this tour, you’ll go behind the scenes at classic perfume house Molinard and discover how a fragrance gets made. Learn from your instructor about the ingredients and techniques behind each perfume, and acquaint yourself with numerous scents. Then, as part of the workshop, you’ll work alongside an experienced perfumer to create your very own fragrance.
- Go behind the scenes at Molinard and learn how perfume gets made
- Work alongside a perfumer to create your own custom scent
- Pick from a number of workshop times to best suit your schedule
- Discover more about Grasse: one of the world’s foremost perfume capitals
What's Included
- Parking free
- 50ml bottle fo Eau de Perfume to take home
- Numbered diploma to reorder your creation in the future
- Food and drinks
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- 60 Bd Victor Hugo, 06130 Grasse, France
60 boulevard Victor Hugo 06130 Grasse
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Parking free
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.5
based on 163 reviews
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Great selection of ingredients - and a lovely teacher ! We both love the fragrances we made. Instructions were clear and easy to follow
Grasse is a beautiful town to visit and the Molinard experience was the highlight of the day. It was so much fun to create our own fragrances - our group was 10 yrs to 77 yrs and we all had a great time. I highly recommend it.
Elizabeth was wonderful! We really enjoyed discover the museum and whole experience. Loved it and would recommend it!
Excellent experience! Lots of options for your final product and support along the way. Beautiful atmosphere!
The instructor was incredibly mean; she yelled at me when my results turned out slightly different from hers. They really ought to get rid of such a short-tempered instructor—she completely ruined a class I had been looking forward to.
Response from Host, Aug 2026
Dear Hiromi,
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.
We are truly sorry to hear that your experience did not meet your expectations. What you describe does not reflect the welcoming, respectful, and caring experience that we strive to provide to all of our guests.
We take your comments very seriously and will share them with the team concerned so that we can better understand what happened.
We sincerely regret that this situation affected an experience you had been looking forward to, and we hope to have the opportunity to welcome you again in the future and provide you with the high-quality experience that we aim to offer every visitor.
Kind regards,
The Molinard Team
A short but wonderful experience learning a little about scents and developing your own unique, signature scent. The staff were kind, attentive, and knowledgeable.
The experience was great and our assistant was friendly and helpful. She recommended adjustments to make our final scents the best. It was interesting smelling the different possibilities for top, middle, and bottom notes. I considered but ended up excluding Rice! I’m very happy we booked the one hour session as my daughter and I used the full time. Afterwards we sniffed our way through the Molinard made blends and each picked a rollerball for travel. Don’t miss this wonderful workshop!
Really fun and engaging activity and a must do if you’re in Grasse. Amandine was simply wonderful and knowledgeable.
This was really fun! My wife and I both enjoyed it so much, we actually ended up booking another at a later time. My wife and I are both very into fragrances, so this was right up our alley.
I would recommend having an idea of the type of fragrance you want to make. There are 90 different notes, so you don’t have a TON of time to decide.
We both came away with fragrances we really enjoyed. I highly recommend this experience.
I did this with my wife and two teenage kids. We really enjoyed it and loved the perfumes we created.
It is amazing how many scent options we had from which to choose. The instructor was very clear with our jobs and helped us create some eau de parfums that we consider very memorable.
Just do it!
This was such a special and unique experience. We had the opportunity to create our very own custom perfume and learn about the art and science behind fragrance making. It was fascinating to discover how perfumes are composed and how different notes work together to create a scent.
Making a personalized fragrance to take home made the experience even more memorable. A fun, educational, and truly one-of-a-kind activity that we’ll never forget.
Highly recommended! 🌸✨
This class was wonderful! Our instructor was very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend taking this class.
This was such a fun experience. You get to smell all sorts of notes, with a clear explanation at the beginning, and after picking your favorites the guide is like a wizard helping you mix notes to create your custom scent. Our guide Lea was amazing!
Great experience and helpful staff to create a wonderful perfume. I would definitely recommend during your stay in Grasse
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.
We had an amazing time. The experience making our very own custom perfume was one we will definitely remember and cherish!
Really interesting, a very fast but impactful approach to understanding fragrance preferences and how to build a fragrance. Our guide Bella was very efficient in explaining our tasks and then narrowing our preferred scents (based on her years of experience building fragrances) into a cohesively blended individual fragrance. The elements of the fragrance take a week to coalesce so I’m still waiting to use mine and I am very excited to do so! You should come to the workshop ready to smell a lot of scents and measure quantities using the provided pipettes (including doing some addition of, and keeping track of, quantities of ml’s).
This is definitely something you should do when in Grasse. You get to smell all of the scents that you like then they come around and help you build a cohesive parfum of the balanced ratios that will work for your personalized bottle to take home. We did feel a little rushed since she had to scramble around to everyone. Note, Molinard is about 12 minute walk slightly on edge of town from Fragonard. Also. Try to arrivé earlier (or save time after) to do the tour of the factory and learn more about the history or process of making perfume, if you want to make that part of your experience.
Unique. It was fun choosing your fragrances to create your scent & you can reorder your scent. The shop has a museum & the building is lovely.
Had such a wonderful time the class luckily was just with a few people so we all had time to learn and create our own personal scents which I think quite a rare experience, as a perfume lover myself this was a dream come true. Would absolutely recommend this class and experience and worth the time and money.
Amazing experience, wonderful guide who showed us how to mix scents, ended up with a 50ml bottle of perfume with our own signature smell. I would recommend this to men as well. My husband loved it as well as the group of men in the other table behind us. Worth the money spent !
Fabulous experience with expert-lead personalized scent-making at the Grasse main campus. The city of Grasse frames the historical context while the campus breathes authenticity into the experience. A must do for a Riviera visit.
The location is beautiful and experimenting with the fragrances was fun. Got to bring home a lovely little bottle of my very own fragrance.
There were just some positives and more negatives with our experience at the workshop. We loved being able to smell all the different essences and choose which ones we wanted in the eau de parfum, however, it was really downhill from there.
After you’re done with choosing your essences, the workshop leader helps you finalize your scent, and afterwards you can start making it. However, in our case my husband and I felt completely forgotten and neglected by the her. We were done with our scents and waited to finalize them but she didn’t come to us and kept passing by us to go to others. At one point she seemed like she was coming after we told her we were finished but she kept only helping the other tables instead.
At one point another helper came to assist our table, but they helped the other 4 people at our table finalize their scents, and completely ignored us and walked away. We were baffled and felt extremely forgotten as everyone was basically done with their making their eau de parfum, while we were sitting idly without a finalized scent.
This experience was only supposed to last approximately 1 hour, but it ended up lasting almost 2 because by the time someone actually helped us everyone else in our workshop group was gone.
It made us feel so awful because we felt like second class citizens compared to everyone else in our workshop.
Overall, we had fun at the beginning but the experience left a sour taste due to the neglect we experienced.
Beautiful facility with an interesting history. Fun making personalized perfume….a memorable French experience.
A very interesting and enjoyable afternoon and came away with a lovely perfume as a reminder from the day. The guide was very good at explaining in both French and English
It was a one hour workshop
I was expecting to learn something
The only thing taught was the standard top, heart, and base notes description.
Literally learned nothing.
I wanted to ask questions, yet the instructor didn't have time for them since there were 20 other people also sitting in the workshop.
I paid 85 Euro pretty much to make a 50 ml bottle of my own perfume, not to gain new knowledge.
It's a beautiful location and space in which to do a workshop. Recommend it for the photo opportunities and the short historical tour for free. I wouldn't recommend this as an informative workshop to anyone.
Absolutely amazing experience. You must take the tour and learn the history of the brand along with creating your personal scent.
Great work shop we really enjoyed it , would have liked a little talk about the perfume history. Felt a bit rush when making our fragrances.
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