Christmas holiday lights hang from trees to illuminate Champs Elysees avenue in Paris as rush hour traffic fills the avenue leading up to the Arc de Triomphe, France, November 20, 2015. — Reuters pic
William Tullett, a smell historian from Anglia Ruskin University and a member of the Odeuropa team, said he hoped the archive would bring new insights and transport the public into a bygone era. The €2.8 million project will see the key smells from more than 400 years of European life shared at museums across the continent.
Odeuropa has brought together experts and academics from universities and institutes in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and Slovenia as well as Britain to discover how scents have moulded communities and traditions.
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