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What Did The Past SMELL like?

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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The Importance of Scent in Modern Art

Jelly used to be a status symbol it cost as much as a portrait so you have this sort of world of Renaissance sugar sculpture and jellies and confectionery that really I see a lot of crossover with contemporary art. So food was my gateway into scent and when I start off playing with smell is quite limiting. You can only do so much in those historic spaces. Will and I are going to try and out nasty each other we both have very bad smells with us. William have you got a smell for us? Yeah where should we stick with let's go nasty I think. We've had something quite nice. He just unscrews the top. Unscrew the top

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