Perfume Education and Experimentation
The Roman satirist Martial often wrote of scent in disparaging terms: perfume, for him, was strongly equated with the ridiculous, the false, the pretentious, and – often (but not always) – the feminine. Read a few choice epigram, here.
IAO Board Member Rubia Chaudri and director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Alexandria, Virginia, and went on a tour of a beautiful (and definitely haunted) historic apothecary. In this post, Saskia shares what they learned during their tour of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum.
Google me this: Past and future search histories converge in August, at the IAO.