Katherine Keenum

Exhibition alert: An upcoming exhibition, Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (at which viewers can elect to release odors that correspond to the imagery in a painting) set me thinking about how hard it is to evoke smells in words. A Simplified Guide to Using the Fragrance Wheel provides some vocabulary to set you thinking. But if colors are hard, how much harder are aromas to put into words!
 
For more about the Pre-Raphaelite show and other museum olfactory explorations, click here. And for another article on the evocation of smells in art, click here.