Nice: Grasse Perfumery & Wine Tasting Full-Day Tour

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Duration8h

GroupUp to 8

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PickupAt your hotel

Grasse, Three Villages & Wine: A Day Inland from the Coast

You're picked up from your Nice hotel and driven inland through vineyards and rocky villages—Grasse, Gourdon, Tourrettes—with a professional guide and free time to explore each stop. The day includes a guided tour of Fragonard Perfumery, a viewpoint overlooking the coast, and wine tasting at an organic vineyard at altitude. Transport is by air-conditioned minivan, groups stay under eight people, and you're back at your hotel by evening.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore villages and wine tasting

Pickup from central Nice hotel
Travel to Grasse perfume capital
Walking tour of Grasse streets
Tour Fragonard Perfumery
Visit medieval village Tourrettes
Arrive at Gourdon viewpoint
Wine tasting at Domaine des Hautes Collines

The Experience

The minivan picks you up from your Nice hotel and heads west into the Provençal countryside, away from the seafront noise. Within an hour you're walking the cobbled streets of Grasse, where the air actually smells different—jasmine, orange blossom, mimosa drifting from the surrounding fields. Your guide takes you through Fragonard Perfumery, one of the town's famous fragrance houses, and you learn how they've been making scent here for centuries. It's not a museum performance; it's a working place, and the guide explains the craft while you're standing in rooms where the actual blending happens.

After Grasse, the route climbs. Gourdon sits on a rocky ridge so high you can see all the way to the coast from the viewpoint—that's the Côte d'Azur spread out below you, and it's the kind of view that makes you understand why people moved here in the first place. Then Tourrettes-sur-Loup, the "City of Violets," another medieval village perched on a hilltop, narrow enough that you can walk it in twenty minutes but dense enough that you feel like you've stepped back. The guide gives you free time in each place, so you're not being herded; you can sit at a café, wander into a shop, or just stand and look.

The day ends at Domaine des Hautes Collines, a vineyard at 500 meters altitude in Saint-Jeannet. The estate grows organic reds, whites, and rosés using traditional methods, and the microclimate up there—cooler, more exposed—shapes the wine. You taste several wines while sitting with views of the hills and the Mediterranean in the distance. It's not rushed; you're in a small group of no more than eight people, so the tasting feels like you're guests rather than a tour number. Hotel drop-off happens in the evening.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off from Nice, transport by air-conditioned minivan, a guided walking tour and visit to Fragonard Perfumery in Grasse, free time to explore Gourdon and Tourrettes-sur-Loup on your own, and wine tasting at Domaine des Hautes Collines with views of the surrounding hills and Mediterranean.
A professional guide provides information throughout the minivan journey.
Gratuity is not included but is customary.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Liven Up Nice

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see the Provençal countryside and taste local wine without arranging your own transport or navigating between villages—the small group size and fixed itinerary mean you spend the day exploring rather than planning.