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Public Lecture: Past Scents of the Perfumer's Garden (Sean Coughlin)
Dec
1
5:00 pm17:00
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Public Lecture: Past Scents of the Perfumer's Garden (Sean Coughlin)

Sean Coughlin will deliver a public lecture to the Czech Association of Aromatherapists.

Abstract

At this workshop, we will talk about the myths and stories of scented materials in the Ancient Mediterranean by plunging into one of the first cross-cultural perfumes of the Greco-Egyptian world: the Metopion. We will smell, touch and taste the difference between the raw ingredients used in the past and the ingredients of perfumery today: bitter almond, cardamom, galbanum, myrrh, calamus and more.

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Public Lecture: Past Scent's of the Perfumer's Garden (Sean Coughlin)
Jul
4
9:30 am09:30
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Public Lecture: Past Scent's of the Perfumer's Garden (Sean Coughlin)

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As part of the XXXI Summer School of Classical Studies: Olive, Vine, Laurel in the Cultural Landscape of the Ancient World, Sean Coughlin presents a public lecture on “Past Scents of the Perfumer’s Garden”.

Abstract

At this workshop, we will talk about the myths and stories of scented materials in the Ancient Mediterranean by plunging into one of the first cross-cultural perfumes of the Greco-Egyptian world: the Metopion. You will smell, touch and taste the difference between the raw ingredients used in the past and the ingredients of perfumery today: bitter almond, cardamom, galbanum, myrrh, calamus, and, of course, the olive.

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Alchemies of Scent and Perfumes (not only) in the Time of Cleopatra | Alchymie Vůnía a Parfémy (Nejen) za Časů Kleopatry
Jun
3
8:00 pm20:00
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Alchemies of Scent and Perfumes (not only) in the Time of Cleopatra | Alchymie Vůnía a Parfémy (Nejen) za Časů Kleopatry

Over the next five years, the Alchemies of Scent team of philosophers and historians of science, Egyptologists, philologists, botanists, and organic chemists will use modern experimental techniques to replicate the recipes of five Greco-Egyptian perfumes from the time of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII….

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