Top Paris Classes & Workshops

While in Paris, visit the atelier of a world-renowned hat maker and personalize your own creation. This 3-hour workshop lets you experience true Parisian craftsmanship and have something unique to take home as a remembrance. Observe traditional handcrafted techniques then choose the color, shape, and accoutrements, all made to measure.

Maracons are one of France's most popular confections. Discover how to make them on your own during a 3-hour class in the capital of French delicacies: Paris. Your expert instructor will lend a hand and provide detailed instructions throughout the class, walking you through the steps to creating a perfectly piped-macaron. Choose the colors you prefer for your shells, fill them with buttercream and learn about their role in French culture while you wait to taste the freshly baked results. Upgrade your booking for an advanced macarons class.

Design your own personal perfume, or ‘parfum’ as the French call it, during this workshop in Paris. Learn about the different families of perfumes and tenacities of scents from a perfumer teacher, and then play with a range of scents to create three different perfumes. Take home your parfum of choice in a 50-ml bottle. This artistic experience is limited to eight people, ensuring a more memorable experience.

Learn the art of perfumery in the country that does it best with this perfume-making workshop. A professional perfumer from the famous perfume house Molinard will teach you all about perfume-making, from theory to ingredients, and will be on hand to give you guidance as you create your own fragrance to take home!

Who needs an Eiffel Tower keychain or Mona Lisa playing cards, when you can make your very own fashion forward souvenir? Create the custom denim jacket of your dreams during a 3-hour fashion workshop in Paris. All materials, including patches, embroidery, and accessories, are at your disposal. No previous design or sewing experience is necessary, as team members are on hand to assist you and offer advice.

Try your hand at the decorative art of faience on this 2-hour ceramic-painting experience at the Gien workshop in Paris. Listen as your instructor shares insight into Gien’s 200-year history. Browse the broad range of faience patterns and seek inspiration for your own creations. Then, set to work painting your plate in the faience style of your choice. Enjoy personal attention from your guide on this small-group tour, limited to eight people, and take your plate with you when your class comes to an end.

Experience the art of French savoir-faire during this hands-on workshop in luxury handcrafted jewelry. Choose between afternoon or evening sessions, which include an insider’s immersion into a real-life showroom in the city’s trendiest district, the Marais. Enjoy a home-cooked lunch or dinner with wine before designing a one-of-a-kind jewelry souvenir to take home.

Learn the secrets to making traditional French baguettes and croissants during a 2-hour baking workshop with a chef. Get time-tested recipes handed down over generations, and bread-making techniques that will help you make perfect baked goods. This is a hands-on baking lesson in the back rooms of a French bakery in Paris with group size limited to eight people for maximum personal attention from the instructor for each student. Leave the class with your own freshly-baked baguette to snack on later.

Parisian perfume is famous for its fine quality and sophisticated bouquet. Discover the secrets to crafting the perfect scent from a master perfume maker in Paris. During this hands-on workshop, learn the history of ‘Eau de Cologne’ and how to identify and describe a perfume’s various notes. Then, follow your nose and mix your own signature scent by combining classic perfume ingredients into a bottle that’s yours to keep.

Learn the art of chocolate making at the workshop of Edwart Chocolatier, right in the heart of central Paris. During this family-friendly class, learn all about how chocolate is made and try your hand at the craft. Take the recipes back with you, so you can show off your skills to your friends and family back home. This class is recommended for adults and kids aged 12 and over.

Combine a guided tour with an opportunity to improve your French language skills with a 1.5-hour conversational class at Paris' famous Café de Flore. It's an excellent way to take your language learning to the next level, speaking with a Parisian. Choose from either a beginner or intermediate level class of no more than five people, ensuring the best possible learning experience for all students. After your lesson and discussion time at the cafe, take a guided tour of the colorful Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood.

As a first walk in the world of perfume, this workshop will allow you to familiarize yourself with perfumery. Smell, then choose your favorite fragrances among the 180 exclusive notes of our perfume organ, and leave with your customized creation of 30 mL. The perfumer will be at your disposal to guide you and share his expertise

Finding worthwhile activities for children while traveling can be a challenge, but this perfume workshop makes it a little bit easier. A fragrance expert helps you and your children become budding alchemists by creating your own perfumes in a fifth-generation heritage Parisian perfumery. Afterward, you can shop for fragrances at a discount.

French pastry is well known around the world and we can find many beautiful and delicious boutiques in France specialized in pastry. This experience will be based on croissants. We will teach you how to make the laminated dough "pâte feuilletée levée" which bakers use to make France's famous breakfast pastries. Do you know the difference between viennoiseries and french pastry?...come and discover the hidden history of this magnificent dessert. A très bientôt #AtenTeAute — Privatization & customization possible!

The buttery croissant is a staple in French bakeries. Learn how to make this local favorite yourself during a 3-hour cooking class in the captial of French cuisine: Paris. With assistance from your expert instructor you'll learn the tricks to making a fluffy, flaky and perfecty folded croissant every time. Still hungry? Try your hand at making pain au chocolat. You'll have an opportunity to sample your fresh-from-oven results when they're through baking, along with some hot coffee or tea.

Paris has a reputation as a global culinary hub, and foodies inspired by the local bakeries shouldn't miss the chance to learn how to prepare a traditional French treat. With this gourmet cooking experience, bring French baking techniques home with you, by learning how to prepare macarons—the famous French pastry. Learn how to make the shells, prepare a sweet filling, and taste the delicate treats once you're done.

Discover a new side of Paris with our Graffiti Workshop. Become a real artist for one day and show your creativity on Paris' walls!

I am a professional calligrapher. I usually teach in French and English to any audience: adults, children, right-handed, left-handed and dyslexic. This session is ideal to discover the calligraphy and can also be the opportunity to deepen your knowledge. The group is limited to 8 people to allow me to give the necessary attention to beginners but also to share a moment with you. I will welcome you in my workshop which is spacious (90m²) and adapted to the practice of art.

Bonjour from Paris! While you can't travel to our beautiful city, we want to make the most out of modern technology and bring Paris and its wonders to you. Thanks to your Private Virtual Tour, you will be able to choose the site, landmark, neighborhood or theme of your liking and 'explore' it thanks to your Local Expert. Our Private Virtual Tours are fun experiences for all curious travelers stuck at home. Engaging and enthusiastic, your Local Experts are here to share their passion with you. Join us now!

Learning the French language is something you can do wherever you are in this era, but still nothing can replace the atmosphere when you are in the capital of France. You will have an immersive experience with surrounding native speakers, you will learn how to pronounce properly those practical French borrowed words, we can’t promise you to master French in such a short time, but we are sure that this experience will absolutely ignite your true interest of the beautiful language.

Our artists have not only talent but also pedagogical experience. You will be introduced to the basic styles and graffiti techniques and with assistance, you’ll create your very own piece!​

Learn how to make one of France's most popular pastries: buttery and flaky croissants. Join an experienced chef for a 3-hour Paris cooking class focused on mastering this traditional breakfast item. Try your hand at different techniques such as rolling the dough to create thin 'leaves' and using a rolling pin to regulate the thickness of your dough. Bake original croissants as well as versions like pain au chocolat and spiraled croissants made with raisins, and return home with a sweet and envious new skill.

Amp up your wardrobe and make use of things you haven’t worn in a while with help from this Parisian fashion trends virtual experience. This fun, interactive experience happens in real time, and you can work with what’s already in your closet to come up with fashionable combinations. Your guide also tells you about the history of fashion in France and what are the hottest trends in Paris this year.

Come live a unique experience in Paris, dive with us in the heart of the most emblematic instrument of France: ACCORDION.  You will discover the history of the accordion, its technique, during a playful and lively presentation, in which we will dismount an instrument in front of you to explain everything! But above all YOU will play! Indeed we will put an accordion in your arms and you will learn, very simply, sufficient bases to discover the pleasure of playing together. You will experience the "chill box" and the orchestra! Finally, over a coffee, a tea or a fruit juice accompanied by pastries, we will make you a demonstration of some musical styles typical of the repertoire of the accordion, from the ball musette of the 1920s to the French song from the 1980s through the post-war swing.