Cannes & Around - Provence and the Cote d'Azur - page 224

Top Sights

Fragonard B4

Musée Fragonard B4

Musée International de la Parfumerie B3

Eating

1 Café des Musées B4

2 Lou Candeloun C2

Shopping

3 Fragonard Maison B3

Musée Fragonard
Offline map Google map
( www.fragonard.com ; 14 rue Ossola; admission free; 10am-6pm) This tiny but fant-
astic private museum houses France's second-largest collection of works by Grassois
painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). There are 15 major works, beautifully ex-
hibited in a renovated 18th-century town house (admire the splendid ceiling fresco in the
entrance hall) and complemented by the paintings of Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837),
Fragonard's sister-in-law and protégée, and Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759-1835), another
painter native of Grasse.

ART MUSEUM

Perfumeries
Three well-known perfumeries run free guided tours of their facilities: Fragonard
Offline map Google map ( www.fragonard.com ; 20 blvd Fragonard; 9am-6pm Feb-Oct,
9am-12.30pm & 2-6pm Nov-Jan) , Molinard ( www.molinard.com ; 60 bd Victor Hugo;
9.30am-12.30pm & 2-6pm) and Galimard ( www.galimard.com ; 73 rte de Cannes;
9am-12.30pm & 2-6pm) . You're taken through every stage of perfume production, from
extraction and distillation to the work of the 'nose'. Tours leave every 15 to 30 minutes
and are available in a number of languages.
Visits end in the perfumeries' showrooms where you can buy fragrances (much cheaper
than couture perfumes, where 60% of what you pay is packaging).

PERFUMERIES