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Breathe

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The Smell of Napoleon

The smell is the only sense that is innately foul. We would have to position buckets below the painting if we would have done this. Some people actually said that when they started smelling and looking at the painting simultaneously, they felt as though they were in the painting. One person even reported that she saw the horses move because it became so much more realistic because of the smell.

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