At 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 11, [Egyptologist Dora] Goldsmith leads the first in a series of seven Zoom workshops on the scents of ancient Egypt. Presented through Santa Fe’s School of Lost Arts, the workshop series covers a host of cultural practices related to scents that can be recreated using the specific ingredients and methods of the ancient Egyptians, based on recipes found in papyri and other historic documents and on temple walls. Each participant receives a list of ingredients to gather for the workshops, if they so choose, or they can purchase a kit online when they register.

— Read more in The scent of history: Egyptologist Dora Goldsmith at The Santa Fe New Mexican.

A unique blended scent is released in the space to evoke elements of the South of France – with top notes of cyprus [sic], middle notes of lemon and bottom notes of sandalwood. It’s a fresh but not overpowering scent – and a pleasant surprise when you catch it!

— From a review of the immersive Van Gogh Alive exhibit, during its run in Sydney last year, at Honi Soit. There are currently 6-ish (or more?) such exhibits floating around the planet, including several in the US; read more in last month's article Immersive van Gogh Experiences Bloom Like Sunflowers at The New York Times.

The other scent… er, odor… sent out was one approximating a foul-smelling canal. Indeed, the spritzer left this reporter with the impression of a dirty gym bag full of spoiled fish.

—  Remember the Fleeting: Scents in Colour exhibit, opening (hopefully) at the Mauritshuis in The Hague later this year? (We posted about it here and here.) They've got the scent kits almost ready to ship, and they've sent out two of the fragrances to journalists. Read more in Ever Wonder What a 17th-Century Dutch Canal Smells Like? No? Well a New Show Invites You to Sniff the Odors of Art History Anyway at ArtNet.

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.