Aftel Archive of Curious Scents

Rainbow of essences! For illustrating my book about my museum, I painted every color of the bottled botanical essences in my Aftel Archive! Can you figure ...out what the 3 blue-hued essences are? #aftelarchiveofcuriousscents www.aftelarchive.com 10/15/20: ANSWERS -- You all know some great blue-colored essences!!! The ones in my collection are from left to right: green cognac, blue cypress and German chamomile oil!

Behind-the-scenes 100 years ago in China: distilling our bottle of cassia essential oil on display in the Aftel Archive!! www.aftelarchive.com

Spikenard photo for my museum book: as biblical anointment and valuable gift since ancient times, the oil of nard has a unique fragrance reminiscent of patchouli and valerian. www.aftelarchive.com

I watercolored this image of a 400-year-old b&w botanical woodcut to illustrate oakmoss for the book about the Aftel Archive that I’ve been working on! #museum #woodcut #watercolor