If Cleopatra wanted to woo you, you’d smell her before you ever saw her. Legend has it that when she first visited Marc Antony in Tarsus, she coated the purple sails of her golden boat in a fragrance so pungent that it wafted all the way to shore.
— Read more at Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra at Atlas Obscura. Hat tip to ringthing!
I saw something about this exhibit but had no idea there was a perfume recreation you could actually sample on skin! Great opportunity for those in the DC area!
Yes, wish I’d known earlier, I could have seen it this summer.