Want to Smell Leonardo’s ‘Lady With an Ermine’? These Scientists Are Offering a Sniff
What might Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved Lady With an Ermine (ca. 1489–91) smell like? Old paint and varnish? A musty museum storage room? According to a team of Polish and Slovenian scientists, it’s somewhere in between. The researchers are part of a project dubbed Odotheka, which is hoping to build a library of scents based […]