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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 RĂłs frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.
On the left, a musician wears an unguent cone.
perfume

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
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.
genetics

Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes

Bodily odors are forever.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 26, 2018
An illustration of "the woman with the most wonderful nose in the world," Ann Haviland.
perfume

Ann Haviland, Forgotten Mastermind of the Signature Scent

Meet the woman dubbed the "poetess of perfume" in 1917.
Jessica Murphy December 19, 2017
At CB I Hate Perfume, food scents abound.
food

Why Smell Like Flowers When You Could Smell Like Roast Beef?

The rebel of the perfume world can make you smell like dinner or dessert.
Anne Ewbank November 30, 2017
Musk sticks have been likened to "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop ... ”
Gastro Obscura

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.
Selection of Exhibits at the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents (photo by Joel Bernstein)
Berkeley, California

Aftel Archive of Curious Scents

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.
North American beaver
art

Before Talking to a Beaver in Tierra del Fuego, Apply This Scent

Andy Wright September 29, 2015
Sequim, Washington

Dandelion Botanical Company

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.