Fragonard Parfumeur Èze
The factory sits at the base of the rock, right on the coastal road between Nice and Monaco, and it looks like exactly what it is: a working perfumery, not a museum recreation. Inside, steam distillation stills line the laboratory, and the air carries something between a greenhouse and a pharmacy — green, sharp, a little sweet.
The tour is free, runs every half-hour from opening, and lasts about thirty minutes. Dr. Anne Costa oversees the formulation lab, where creams and skin-care products are still made on-site. A perfume organ holds over 200 essences, and somewhere in the building there is an old notebook with the original Fragonard formulas.
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People who come back tend to book the 15-minute perfume workshop before anything else — you leave with a 12 ml spray you've built yourself, which is a more useful souvenir than most. The separate boutique up in the village at 7 avenue du Jardin Exotique keeps later hours and is worth the walk if the factory shop is crowded.
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Eugène Fuchs arrived in Grasse after World War I, bought two existing perfumeries, and in 1926 opened Parfumerie Fragonard — naming it after Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the Rococo painter born in Grasse in 1732. The name connected a modern commercial venture to the town's most famous son without pretending to be anything other than what it was.
The Èze factory followed in 1968, bringing production down to the coast along the Riviera road. Today the business is run by three sisters — Anne, Agnès, and Françoise Costa — representing the third generation of the founding family.
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