Perfume Museum

About museum

The Museum of Perfumery in Saint Petersburg is a unique collection of perfumes, rare bottles, books containing recipes of forgotten fragrances, and items related to perfumery. The museum's founder is an art historian, perfume critic, collector and publisher of the newspaper "Private Perfumer", Elina Vasilyevna, and the creator of fragrances under the Art Deco Perfumes brand. She opened the School of Perfume together with St. Petersburg perfumer Natalya Svetlaya. The museum exhibits famous world masterpieces such as Kazimir Malevich's cologne "Severny", unique bottles of Chanel No. 5, the 1944 fragrance Bandit, and Elina Arsenyeva's fragrances "Eau de Cologne Yozhikov." The collection is kept on shelving that protects it from excess oxygen and sunlight. Visits to the museum are possible only by prior appointment and prepayment.