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Sniffing their way

Posted by Robin on 29 October 2025 2 Comments

Ever wondered what war smells like? Or ponder the odor of love, or the stench of medieval Paris, or the sacred fragrance of religion?

A new exhibition in Germany allows visitors to discover unknown worlds of smells by sniffing their way through 81 different fragrances across 37 different galleries.

The show “The Secret Power of Scents,” which opens to the public on Wednesday at the Kunstpalast museum, in the western city of Düsseldorf, combines fragrances with art, taking visitors on a journey of more than 1,000 years of cultural history.

— Read more in German scents exhibition combines 1,000 years of fragrances with art and history at The Seattle Times, or see The secret power of scents: What does the art palace smell like, Mr. Müller-Grünow? at Kulturkenner.

Six thousand years of olfactory culture

Posted by Robin on 21 May 2025 Leave a Comment

From May 21 to Nov. 30, 2025, the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo - home of the Center for the Study of the History of Textile, Costume and Perfume, in Venice is hosting the exhibition Journey through the History of Perfume. [...] The exhibition route unfolds along a scenic timeline, through which visitors can admire more than five hundred bottles, protected under elegant glass bells. These objects tell the story of six thousand years of olfactory culture. Alongside the original exhibits, seven historical fragrances have been faithfully recreated by the essence house Givaudan, starting with the original formulas.

— Read more in An exhibition in Venice traces 6,000 years of perfume history with the Storp Collection at Finestre sull'Arte.

Perfumes of Ancient Egypt

Posted by Robin on 10 December 2024 2 Comments

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo, is reviving the history of perfume in ancient Egyptian civilization through a temporary exhibition titled "Perfumes of Ancient Egypt Through the Ages," which will last for about three months. The exhibition aims to shed light on the perfume industry in ancient Egypt, its various uses, different compositions, and the rituals associated with it.

Organized in collaboration with Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 in France, the dlaboratory [sic] Apis Archimedes, and the hieroglyphic language foundation Herolcix, the exhibition showcases a collection of artifacts related to perfumes.

— Read more in Reconstructed ancient perfumes showcased in new Egyptian Museum exhibition at The Jersusalem Post.

Daydreaming figures smelling flowers or burning incense

Posted by Robin on 8 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Fragrance is visually suggested in images of daydreaming figures smelling flowers or burning incense, enhancing the sensory aura of ‘art for art’s sake’. Scent was also implied in Victorian painting to evoke hedonism – pleasure in exquisite sensations – and a preoccupation with beauty; or to reflect the Victorian vogue for synaesthesia (evoking one sense through another) and the penchant for art, like scent, to evoke moods and emotions. [...] Visitors to the exhibition will be able to participate in an optional scent experience that will enliven the scents suggested in certain paintings.

— Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites opens Friday at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, England.

Ripe with olfactory potential

Posted by Robin on 4 September 2024 Leave a Comment

The product of that ambition can be sampled in Aqua Tofana, a new opera by the young Sardinian composer Gaia Aloisi, which premieres as part of London’s Tête à Tête festival next month. It tells the true story of Giulia Tofana, an alchemist in 17th-century Italy whose poison enabled women to dispatch abusive or inconvenient husbands. It is ripe with olfactory potential for McCartney, who has been tasked with creating the “deadly” potion that gives the opera its name.

— Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays scents an opera. Read more in Perfumer Sarah McCartney is making the arts smell good at Financial Times.

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