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  • Irina Ridzuan

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  • Credits

    Thank you!

    We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.

  • Dutch Courage and the Amsterdam Spirit

    Botanicals in Jenever

    Inspired by all the quarantinis (that is a quarantine martini) recipes plastered across social media in the past few months, it bodes to dive into the history of Jenever as Amsterdam’s--and the...

  • Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat

    Amsterdam’s Relationship with Civet Cats

    Have you ever wondered what civet pheromones extracted from its anal glands smell like? Actually... don't answer that. Just drop by our AromaLab and catch a whiff yourself. But first, read about the...

  • The Making(s) of Biryani

    by Masuma Halai Khwaja

    Masuma Khwaja is a brilliant artist from Karachi, Pakistan, whom we are excited to welcome as our first guest artist of 2020. During her one-week research stay with Mediamatic in mid-January

  • A Blame, A Barrier

    Olfactory Discourse Regarding the Other

    R: Dutch children weren’t allowed to be held, [because] later they’d smell of [our] sweat. Holding them wasn’t allowed… [T]hey [The Dutch] were afraid [of their children] being soaked in sweat, sweat...

  • Of Urine, Pickled Leather, and Tanneries

    A Case of Scent Zoning in 17th-century Amsterdam

    Once a small port-city, Amsterdam began to resemble the bustling city we know today by the early modern era. In fact, during Amsterdam’s “Golden Age”—between 1585 and 1663—the city population grew...

  • "Eau d'îles de l'Est"

    Public smells of people

    This is the third and last part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashions a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every...

  • "Eau d'îles de l'Est"

    Odour of the industries

    This is the second part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashions a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every perfume

  • "Eau d'îles de l'Est"

    Smells of the water

    This is the first part of a three-part series written by Iris van den Linden and Amber Striekwold. In this series, Iris and Amber fashion a conceptual perfume of Oosterdok. Like every perfume, their...

  • Lemon & scurvy

    An ironic antidote

    Imagine a state whereby every sensory experience you came to offended your senses. Trees smelling of fecal matter. The taste of poultry almost poisons you. Greenery from vegetation is so disagreeably...

  • "Great and ghastly stench"

    Dutch whaling industry in the 17th century

    “Lying in the bay were five large whale carcases which still had not been flensed through lack of manpower. There was a "great and ghastly stench" and, after a few fine days, the sun had melted the...

  • Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 2

    Bread

    Life near the Port of Amsterdam was not only scented by colonial activities. Afterall, a huge portion of businesses ran by the docks were also to sustain a whole city of people. Having said that, the...

  • Supplying the Dutch Diet Pt. 1

    Pickled Herring

    Along the lines of the previous topic : The Amsterdam port did not only shelter ships coming from abroad. Some of the vessels coming into the docks were also ships related to local industry. During...

  • A warehouse ablaze

    Fire of 1791

    It is true that many of the scents that infected the Amsterdam air was by way of the VOC/WIC ships coming to and from the harbour. In a way, a major import – albeit unintentional- from these...

  • Pelts and skin

    Smelly goods from New Amsterdam

    “If it was the search for a short route to Asia that brought the Dutch to North America, it was the beaver that made them stay” ( NNI, 2019 ). Like most trade network, the North American fur trade...

  • Of mothballs and grandma

    Camphor's history with the Dutch

    Cinnamomum Camphora , the fragrant camphor tree. A possibly large evergreen tree, with pale bark and dots of white flowers which will eventually bloom into small purple berries. While sight of the...

  • Aboard a passenger-liner-turned-hospital-ship

    The Oranje

    Smelly business did not remain in the pre-modern era. It is very much a modern phenomenon just as well. One point of interest for us scent-hunters is the MS Oranje. A 20,166-ton ship, in its hay-day...

  • Those Who Bled for Nutmeg

    The Narrative Contextualized within Banda Island's Larger History

    “The island can be smelled before it can be seen. From more than ten miles out to sea a fragrance hangs in the air and long before the bowler-hat mountain hoves into view you are nearing land.”...

  • Smell of the exotic

    Rare animals in Amsterdam

    The exotic animal trade: one might not think too much of its significance to our ecosystem. Yet, it is very much “alive and kicking” and becoming a real threat in the global world. Recently, the...

  • Plantable gold

    An era of colonial agriculture

    One of the main culprits of contemporary scent is the local ecosystem. But with a globalized approach to importation and exportation, our locality not only sports indigenous flora but foreign ones...

  • The Dark Side of Medicine

    Dutch Cocaine and Opium Trade

    A revised narrative in Dutch history?

  • A Dutch-style cleaning frenzy?

    What has cleanliness got to do with anything?
  • Oosterdok Irina Ridzuan

    The Aroma of Amsterdam's Chinatown: Peanuts

    The humble beginnings of Chinatown Amsterdam is inextricably linked to a surprising aroma: peanuts!  

created Irina Ridzuan modified Sjoerd Houben

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