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Mexico City, Mexico

Museum of Perfume

At this bright and vibrant museum in Mexico City, you can make your own custom scent.
The smell of baking pretzels at an Auntie Anne's is an inescapable part of their branding.
science

How Chain Restaurants Use Smells to Entice Us

When it comes to marketing food, scent can be as important as flavor.
Andrew Coletti September 26, 2024
London, England

Floris Perfumery

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.
The island of Cyprus was an ancient mecca for herbal perfumes.
science

Resurrecting the Scents of Ancient Cyprus

An experimental archaeology park lets visitors get a whiff of the island's aromatic past.
Anna K. Cottrell August 15, 2024
perfume

Podcast: Sniffing out What’s Special with Saskia Wilson Brown

What did Napoleon smell like?
The Podcast Team December 21, 2023
This mural from the Necropolis at Shaykh 'Abd al-Qurnah depicts the embalming process.
mummies

Ancient Egyptians May Have Spiced Their Mummies

Most ingredients in embalming perfumes were good enough to eat.
Diana Hubbell October 25, 2023
The limestone canopic jars of lady Senetnay featured lids shaped like human heads. Two jars are kept at the Museum August Kestner in Hanover, Germany.
mummies

Get a Whiff of Ancient Egypt’s 'Scent of Eternity'

Experts reconstructed the smell of mummified organs—and it’s actually pretty pleasant.
Roxanne Hoorn September 14, 2023
Children play in the monsoon rains that pour down on the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh every year from late July till September.
perfume

How Indian Perfumers Capture the Smell of Rain

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
Zinara Rathnayake August 2, 2023
Let the crafty on your list create their own gifts this year.
insects

Quirky Gifts for the Crafty DIYer

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.
Atlas Obscura December 1, 2022
Gifts for bibliophiles can be more than just books. But books are good, too.
holiday

Unusual Gifts for Book Lovers

A giving guide from the Atlas Obscura team.
Atlas Obscura November 28, 2022
witchcraft

What the Scent of a Witch Revealed About the Ancient World

Antiquity’s perfumed sorceresses still influence ideas about magic today.
Britta Ager October 24, 2022
Dr. Philippe Max Rouja, Custodian of Historic Wrecks from the Government of Bermuda, clearing the non-historic layers of sand during the rescue archaeology investigation of the bow of the shipwrecked <em>Mary Celestia</em>, South Shore Bermuda.
shipwrecks

How a Long-Lost Perfume Got a Second Life After 150 Years Underwater

A team of divers and archaeologists discovered the 19th-century fragrance in a shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda.
Lina Zeldovich June 30, 2020
Old Enio Bonchev Distillery & Family Museum
Tarnicheni, Bulgaria

Old Enio Bonchev Distillery & Family Museum

This rose and lavender oil distillery still operates as it did more than a century ago.
Inside the scent-based mini-museum.
Reykjavik, Iceland

Fischersund

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.
On the left, a musician wears an unguent cone.
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Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra

One archaeologist describes the spicy, musky scent as "the Chanel No. 5 of ancient Egypt."
Sabrina Imbler August 6, 2019
Fez, Morocco

Al-Attarine Madrasa

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.
This fresco in the palace is said to have inspired the Taj Mahal.
Burhanpur, India

Shahi Qila

A fresco in this magnificent palace is said to have been the first depiction of the Taj Mahal's design.
Jars of ambergris.
Gastro Obscura

Ambergris

Whale excrement once flavored ice cream.