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A New Encyclopedia Explores Europe’s Smelly History

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    December 14, 2023 4:32 PM PST

    Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art


    [url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-new-encyclopedia-explores-europes-smelly-history-180983417/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-new-encyclopedia-explores-europes-smelly-history-180983417/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us


    At its core, Odeuropa is an encyclopedia of smells. The online database
    pulls together the vast scent-related image and textual data of museums,
    universities and other heritage institutions, “to help people discover
    the olfactory cultures and vocabularies of the past,” says Leemans. This
    includes everything from disease-fighting perfumes to the stench of
    industrialization in historic literature and paintings.


    Just don't know what to think of this, kind of interesting though. A "smell" encyclopedia.