Anyone will be able to purchase the scent kit, from which I now know the drowsy nutmeg-orange-clove smell of pomanders in Dutch portraits, and the pepper and cinnamon of Willem van Mieris’s A Grocer’s Shop. But far more interesting, and less predictable, is the fetid odour of Dutch canals.

— More info on the Fleeting: Scents in Colour exhibit, opening at the Mauritshuis in The Hague later this year. Read more in Watch and sniff: how to smell a Dutch still life... at The Guardian.