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The "foul and fragrant" smells of our past from industry to Marie Antoinette's perfume are to be recreated in a £2.5m European project.
Anglia Ruskin University is helping to build an archive of smells from the 16th to early 20th Centuries.
The smell of an old book being extracted in the Heritage Science Lab at University College London
Dr William Tullet, Cambridge-based smell historian, said as they were central to daily lives they "deserve to have a history".
A Dutch illustration of the sense of smell from about 1680, artist unknown
The findings will be shared online and in museums across Europe next year.
The Odeuropa project, will bring together historians, artificial intelligence (AI) experts, chemists and perfumers from The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Slovenia and the UK.
It is hoped they will recreate scents that mimic the chemical and manufacturing processes redolent of the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-54971742
maximus otter
Anglia Ruskin University is helping to build an archive of smells from the 16th to early 20th Centuries.
The smell of an old book being extracted in the Heritage Science Lab at University College London
Dr William Tullet, Cambridge-based smell historian, said as they were central to daily lives they "deserve to have a history".
A Dutch illustration of the sense of smell from about 1680, artist unknown
The findings will be shared online and in museums across Europe next year.
The Odeuropa project, will bring together historians, artificial intelligence (AI) experts, chemists and perfumers from The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Slovenia and the UK.
It is hoped they will recreate scents that mimic the chemical and manufacturing processes redolent of the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-54971742
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