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Making scents of art
What would the Venus de Milo smell like as a perfume?
Answer: An “amber and woody combination with intense notes of mandarin and jasmine.”
Such questions are the theme of a collaboration between perfume houses’ “noses” and the Louvre museum in Paris.
Visitors to the Louvre shop will find five scents matching some of the museum’s works.
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