Listen to Episode 26

Read the article: The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume

Further Reading

• Ambergris: how to tell if you’ve struck gold with ‘whale vomit’ or stumbled upon sewage
• Forgotten women in science: Tapputi-Belatekallim
• James Kennedy’s chemistry charts:
  • Table of organic compounds and their smells
  • Meet the Terpenes: a visual introduction from isoprene to latex
  • Table of esters and their smells
• Basenotes.net
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer