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insects

Quirky Gifts for the Crafty DIYer

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.
Atlas Obscura December 1, 2022
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
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
Tarnicheni, Bulgaria

Old Enio Bonchev Distillery & Family Museum

This rose and lavender oil distillery still operates as it did more than a century ago.
Reykjavik, Iceland

Fischer

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur RĂłs frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.
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
Burhanpur, India

Shahi Qila

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

Ann Haviland, Forgotten Mastermind of the Signature Scent

Meet the woman dubbed the "poetess of perfume" in 1917.
Jessica Murphy December 19, 2017
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
Gastro Obscura

Musk Sticks

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.
Berkeley, California

Aftel Archive of Curious Scents

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.
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.
London, England

Angela Flanders Perfumer

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.
San Francisco, California

Garden of Fragrance

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.