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When it was painted in 1617, The Sense of Smell by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens portrayed a royal garden in all its spring colours and detail. Now the Prado Museum in Madrid is evoking its smells as well as its looks.
The exhibition has recreated ten fragrances identified in the artwork, part of the Five Senses series that Brueghel and Rubens painted for the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and her husband Albert of Austria, rulers of the southern Netherlands.
Among the aromas are Allegory, which is inspired by the bouquet of flowers being sampled by the allegorical figure representing the sense of smell, and Gloves, evoking how leather was treated with amber, balsams, woods and flower essences to give the wearer
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