In the growing field of smell research, scientists, artists, historians and cultural heritage specialists are coming together to work on what is perhaps the trickiest sense to preserve. (Scent created by Inger Leemans and Jorg Hempenius of iScent) And there was the distinct smell of paper money. There were also hints of nutmeg and clove, because merchants often went back and forth to warehouses where spices were stored. The reconstructed smell includes notes of fresh air river water from the Amstel, which flowed underneath sweat and musk from traders crowded on the floor wood and stone. It was a public building that housed a tourist market. The Amsterdam stock exchange opened in 1611. The Smell of Money: Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 17th and 18th Centuries Verbeek relied on during the reconstruction, which is part of a project called “ In Search of Lost Scents.” The scent is offered in the Rijksmuseum as part of tours - on strips of paper or in a necklace with tiny pumps - alongside Jan Willem Pieneman’s 1824 painting of the scene.
And we know the ingredients of Napoleon’s perfume - he wore liters of it every day and carried a bottle in his boot. So we know more about them.” We also know that it had rained the night before the battle, that anxiety sweat smells different from normal sweat, and that there were thousands of horses on the field. “Soldiers don’t write about their injuries as much as they write about the terrible sounds and smells. At least, these are some of the elements that Caro Verbeek, an art historian and olfactory researcher, tried to incorporate when she was reconstructing the smell, in partnership with the perfumer Birgit Sijbrands, the scent designer Bernardo Fleming of International Flavors & Fragrances and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This might have been what Napoleon’s retreat from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 smelled like. Eau de cologne containing rosemary, bergamot and bitter orange. Photographs by Erik Tanner for The New York Times.Īnxiety sweat.
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