Musée des arômes et du parfum de Graveson

About the museum

The Musée des arômes et du parfum de Graveson was founded in 1989. It is housed in former cellars linked to the Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet, between the Alpilles and the Montagnette, near Les Baux-de-Provence and Saint-Rémy.

The route brings together apparatus dating from the late 18th to the early 20th century: stills in glass and copper, concentrators and extractors, measuring instruments, a perfumer's organ, rare flasks, and containers for essential oils and floral waters. It also shows a working miniature factory from the late 19th century, a reconstructed laboratory from the same period, and a presentation of enfleurage, an extraction method known since antiquity.

Outside, the Carré des simples is a garden of aromatic plants, where verbena, mint, lavender, basil and rosemary grow, for example. Lavender distillation demonstrations take place in summer.

Highlights

• Collection of about fifty stills in all sizes
• Perfumer's organ and rare flasks
• Miniature factory from the late 19th century
• Aromatic plant garden, the Carré des simples
• Lavender distillation demonstrations

Permanent exhibition

• Collection d'alambics et de matériel de parfumerie – Stills, concentrators, perfumer's organ, flasks and reconstructions of a factory and a laboratory from the late 19th century.

Founded

1989

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