Once home to the distillation, production and blending of all our perfumes, the Bastide has now become a museum, bearing witness to the House's savoir-faire. The course of the visit is punctuated by the different stages of perfume creation, where each room conceals collector's items, antique machines and surprising infrastructures that make up the House's heritage.
The free 25-minute tour is available every 20 minutes, from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm.
Audio guides are available in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
Free parking is available just 200 metres from La Bastide.
Maison Molinard makes it a point of honor to the selection of its raw materials, particularly accentuating on rare, noble and natural ingredients, from Grasse and from the whole world.
You enter the majestic Molinard distiller, a unique piece with the metal structure designed by the famous Gustave Eiffel. In the midst of copper stills, you will learn the different techniques of extraction of natural materials, useful for the composition of Molinard perfumes!
Since the 1920s, Maison Molinard has produced its soaps based on vegetable oil, available in a wide olfactory and colorful palette. The soap factory receives an astonished audience and delighted to attend this authentic manufacturing at the Bastide breasts!
In this high place of know-how and expertise, the ingredients of exceptional quality make up the most beautiful olfactory partitions. Discover the behind the scenes of the perfumer in the heart of the 1930s laboratory, where everything is taking shape, is created, is composed. .
Once the composition of a perfume is finished, the time of maceration has come! The perfume concentrate must remain in specific tanks, for a variable duration depending on the fragrances, before the bottle.
Once your visit to the museum is over, extend your journey through the Maison Molinard by discovering the Bastide boutique.
Toilets and a hot and cold drinks dispenser are available to customers.
We accept credit cards, American Express, checks and cash. Vacation vouchers are not accepted.
Our store has disabled access.
Dogs are allowed on a leash.
60, BOULEVARD VICTOR HUGO, GRASSE
Telephone: +33 (0)4 93 36 01 62
E-mail: [email protected]
October to March: Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
During school vacations, open Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
April to September: Monday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m,
July/August: Monday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm.
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Introduce all audiences to the profession of perfumer, understand the architecture of a perfume and tame the essences that make it up, this is the wish of Jean-Pierre Lerouge-Bénard when he created in preview, in 1994, the workshop perfumes.
