Autrefois lieu de distillation, de production et d'assemblage de tous nos parfums, la Bastide est aujourd'hui devenue musée et témoigne du savoir-faire de la Maison. Le cours de la visite est rythmé par les différentes étapes de la création de parfum où chaque pièce recèle des objets de collection, des machines anciennes et des infrastructures surprenantes qui constituent l'héritage de la Maison.
La visite gratuite est disponible toutes les 25 minutes, de 10h00 à 12h et de 14h à 17h.
Des audio-guides sont disponibles en français, anglais, espagnol, italien et allemand.
Un parking gratuit est disponible à 200 mètres de la Bastide.
Maison Molinard makes it a point of honor to the selection of its raw materials, particularly accentuating on rare, noble and natural ingredients, from Grasse and from the whole world.
You enter the majestic distilloer Molinard, a unique piece with the metal structure designed by the famous Gustave Eiffel. In the midst of copper alambics, you will learn the different techniques of extraction of natural materials, useful for the composition of Molinard perfumes!
Since the 1920s, Maison Molinard has produced its soaps based on vegetable oil, available in a wide olfactory and colorful palette. The soap factory receives an astonished audience and delighted to attend this authentic manufacturing at the Bastide breasts!
In this high place of know-how and expertise, the ingredients of exceptional quality make up the most beautiful olfactory partitions. Discover the behind the scenes of the perfumer in the heart of the 1930s laboratory, where everything is taking shape, is created, is composed. .
Once the composition of a perfume is finished, the time of maceration has come! The perfume concentrate must rest in specific tanks, for a variable duration depending on the fragrances, before the bottle.
Introduce all audiences to the profession of perfumer, understand the architecture of a perfume and tame the essences that make it up, this is the wish of Jean-Pierre Lerouge-Bénard when he created in preview, in 1994, the workshop perfumes.
