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Frommer's Guide
INTRODUCTION
GETTING TO KNOW
DINING
ATTRACTIONS
Suggested Itineraries
Museums
Neighborhoods Worth a Visit
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Especially for Kids
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A Day at the Races
NIGHTLIFE
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TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO ART & ARCHITECTURE
FEATURES AND EVENTS
ATTRACTION Frommer
Fragonard Musée du Parfum (Perfume Museum)

Fragonard Musée du Parfum (Perfume Museum) -- This museum is in a 19th-century theater on one of Paris's busiest thoroughfares. As you enter the lobby through a courtyard, the scented air will remind you why you're there -- to appreciate perfume enough to buy a bottle in the ground-floor shop. But first, a short visit upstairs introduces you to the rudiments of perfume history. The copper containers with spouts and tubes were used in the distillation of perfume oils, and the exquisite collection of perfume bottles from the 17th century to the 20th century is impressive.

39 bd. des Capucines, 1e.Phone: 01-47-42-04-55.Open: Mon-Sat 9am-5:20pm.Free admission.Métro: Opéra.


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