![]() Spending an hour in here, which is what one is allotted with the purchase of a $20 ticket, is an emotional journey of inhaling odors that conjure ancient civilizations and one’s own past. Exhibits allow visitors to understand where these ingredients come from, see the raw materials and smell side by side contemporary, ethically rendered animal-derived tinctures and their antique counterparts. ![]() One of the most alluring aspects of perfume is the use of animal scents, most of which are derived from not terribly alluring-sounding elements like excrement or perineal secretions. Among the sniffable exhibits derived from flowers, roots, leaves, bark, resins and balsams the museum also presents a perfumer’s “organ,” or workbench, a perfume deconstructed into its component parts and drawers of raw ingredients. ![]()
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