The Irish perfumer Meabh Mc Curtin, working with the Joyce scholar Christine O’Neill, has attempted to bring the olfactory world of Ulysses to life by creating 14 of the scents that are described in [James Joyce’s Ulysses].

The series of fragrances begin with Ulysses’ famous opening passage: the shaving ritual of stately, plump Buck Mulligan on top of the Martello tower at Sandycove, in Dublin. It was a work of partly historical, partly artistic reconstruction.

— Read more in Beery Men and Peatsmoke: For Bloomsday, an Irish perfumer in Paris creates the smells of Ulysses at The Irish Times.