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TED Radio Hour

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Smelt a Wig, a Piece of Jewellery, an Old Perfumed Wig

Karl verbiqe is a smell historian who has sniffed mummies, jewellery and wigs. Smell can also tell us a lot about history - as he discovered when smelling Napoleon's perfume in the amsterdam museum. Some people even reported that she saw the horses move because it became so much more realistic because of the smell....

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