Something in the Air

"The Nose Knows." Jimmy Durante

A recent report on NPR, “Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says” said that the ancients used perfumes, oils, and waxes to add another dimension to the images of their deities—more intensity than the bright colored paint that we’ve since lost. Their marble statues were not “classically-white,” nor were their bronzes cl…