“The idea is that you take it, and you smell it, and you walk around with it and just imagine it,” explained Loboda. The formula is such a costly blend of tobacco, tuberose and ambrox that Firmenich has no plans to sell it.

— Artist Maria Loboda, talking about her installation "Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905,” at the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island in New York, and the accompanying fragrance developed by perfumer Honorine Blanc. Read more at An Artist Recreates a Smoking Room With Flowers and Perfume at the New York Times.