The Osmothèque, a perfume museum in Versailles

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This amazing perfume museum was founded in 1990 by two renowned perfumers, its name derives from the Greek "osmo" aroma, and "teak", a collection, such as library or club. Consequently, the museum is actually a collection of rare perfumes and fragrances that can enjoy and from professionals to recognize just curious. It also hosts old classic perfumes and fragrances otherwise be lost in time.

The Osmothèque is related to a graduate school for perfumers, beauticians and scientists, and preserved relics of art and fragrance industry. Your samples are of interest to fans of fragrances: perfumes of animals, raw materials cabinets and bottles of perfume from the late twentieth century.

In an underground vault at exactly 12 ° C, is a collection of historical bottles that retain the smell of perfume contained. These bottles are filled with pure argon, a chemically inert noble gas to prevent oxidation of the samples. Part of a heritage classic fragrances that can be used to discover and recreate perfumes that were once secret formulas, lost long ago, like the famous perfume Paul Poiret, the great designer who created her own fragrance in 1910.

In addition to samples of perfumes, the Museum preserves ancient documents relating to the composition and manufacture of perfumes. Perhaps the most important is the description of a perfume for a king in Asia Minor, was written in the first century by Pliny the Elder, a Roman historian who lived between 23 and 79 AD.

To know everything about perfume, that fragile human creations, and how they are protected from the ravages of time and forgetfulness, it is best to visit this Osmothèque, a live collection of perfumes that can be enjoyed for recall or for the first time life. In fact, the "house of perfumes" was for many years a project of the Technical Committee of the French Society of Perfumers, until with the French Perfume Committee and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles, Valle de l ' Oise Yvelines, made it happen.

Works at the School of Perfumery in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles, 36 rue du Parc de Clagny and also in the collection of perfume, says cultural activities related to fragrances, as informational publications, meetings and travel for members. Visits can only be made upon request. If you arrive during the work shift, the "osmotecarios" will offer strips of blotting paper soaked in perfume.

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