Stop and smell the art: Polish museum captures original scent of da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine'
The crisp musk of an old book. The sweet sting of a lover's perfume on a coat collar. Smells accentuate our experiences and bond us to objects, their imagined memories seeped into our subconscious. But how far could our sense of smell take us when it comes to experiencing masterpieces? Could we, for example, truly feel like we were there as 'Lady with an Ermine' was first created? A team of researchers in Poland and Slovenia are attempting to find out, having developed a scented pen for Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century painting, which visitors of the National Museum in Kraków can now sniff as ...