Museo del Profumo a Sant'Elena Sannita

The Perfume Museum is inaugurated on August 17, 2014, inside a stone building, obtained from a former school complex, renovated and transformed into several elegant rooms. Through testimonies, newspaper articles and small objects, you discover the history of this community: at the beginning of 900′ skilled knife-grinders on the streets of the Capital, today perfume shopkeepers in major Italian cities, especially in Rome and Naples.
The structure houses perfumes from the end of the nineteenth century but it is not only a museum because being multipurpose it is flanked by a special botanical garden that pursues the goal of creating a chemical laboratory for the creation of new perfumes. The exhibition includes about 1400 pieces of modern perfumery, that is related to the early twentieth century, enclosed in prestigious cabinets. Original perfumes with the price still near, out of production (except for some big names that have made the history of perfumery, still sold today). The collection on display is the result of meticulous work that has lasted for over one hundred years. The Santelenese perfumers, once federated, had begun collecting unique pieces, first editions, special bottles. With the dissolution of the federation, this scrupulous work risked being lost, but the Muzio family took charge of the preservation of this treasure and generously donated it to the Foundation "Il Cammino del Profume" and then to the Perfume Museum.