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46 models to place in a room or turn on the screen: historical objects, fragrance materials, the apparatus, and the molecules. Each says what it is and is not.

On an iPhone or iPad, “View in your room” opens Apple’s AR Quick Look; on an Android phone, Google’s Scene Viewer (not yet tested on a device). Elsewhere, “Turn it here” draws the model on the page, engraved, and turns it with the arrow keys or a drag. Nothing is fetched until you ask, and nothing is stored or sent. Each card links to its full description, credit and files (GLB, USDZ, for any 3D viewer).

Objects and materials

An engraved still of the model: a Han-dynasty incense burner, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

museum object

Lidded incense burner (xianglu)

A museum object, 3D-scanned by the Smithsonian: shown for the history of perfume, which began as smoke. Not a HombreOils product.

A lidded bronze incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes, inlaid with gold, silver, turquoise and carnelian; China, early Western Han dynasty, about the 2nd century BCE. Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession F1947.15a-b (purchase, Charles Lang Freer Endowment). Aromatics were burned in vessels like this one; the word perfume comes from the Latin per fumum, through smoke. The 3D model is the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office’s scan, simplified for the web here.

17.9 cm tall, 10.1 cm across · CC0 1.0 (Smithsonian Open Access) · Lidded incense burner (xianglu), Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, F1947.15a-b; 3D model by the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office; CC0 · GLB 727 KB · USDZ 1.4 MB · more on History

An engraved still of Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos (The Hunt Museum, HCM 233)

museum object

Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos (The Hunt Museum, HCM 233)

The Hunt Museum, HCM 233, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

9.5 cm tall · CC BY 4.0 · credit and more on Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos

An engraved still of Attic white-ground lekythos (The Hunt Museum, HCM 228)

museum object

Attic white-ground lekythos (The Hunt Museum, HCM 228)

The Hunt Museum, HCM 228, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

scale not stated · CC BY 4.0 · credit and more on Attic white-ground lekythos

An engraved still of Gold pomander (The Hunt Museum, MG 087)

museum object

Gold pomander (The Hunt Museum, MG 087)

The Hunt Museum, MG 087, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

scale not stated · CC BY 4.0 · credit and more on Gold pomander

An engraved still of Cosmetic jar (The Hunt Museum, MG 008)

museum object

Cosmetic jar (The Hunt Museum, MG 008)

The Hunt Museum, MG 008, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

scale not stated · CC BY 4.0 · credit and more on Cosmetic jar

An engraved still of A bergamot (Citrus bergamia), with a leaf

fragrance material

A bergamot (Citrus bergamia), with a leaf

A bergamot fruit and a leaf, the house’s own model: the peel’s oil-gland dimples, a winged leaf stalk. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

7.5 cm tall, 14.9 cm across · in-house · more on Citrus bergamia Risso, bergamot essential oil (olio essenziale di bergamotto)

An engraved still of Vetiver roots, a tied bundle

fragrance material

Vetiver roots, a tied bundle

A tied bundle of dried vetiver roots, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

about 24 cm long, 12 cm wide, 2 cm high · in-house · more on vetiver oil (vetiver essential oil), Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty

An engraved still of Vanilla pods, cured

fragrance material

Vanilla pods, cured

Five cured vanilla pods, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

about 19 cm long, 12 cm wide, 2 cm high · in-house · more on cured vanilla pods, Vanilla planifolia Andrews

An engraved still of the model: an enfleurage chassis, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

in-house model

An enfleurage chassis

An in-house model (HombreOils), drawn from the method, not from a measured historical chassis; nominal size.

An enfleurage chassis: a wooden frame holding a glass pane spread with a layer of odourless fat, with petals laid on it. Over days the fat takes up the flowers’ scent; the fat is then washed with alcohol. An in-house model made for the site’s plates; its size (about 60 cm across) is nominal, not measured from a historical chassis.

about 80 cm long, 62 cm wide, 7 cm high · in-house · GLB 30 KB · USDZ 46 KB · more on Science: extraction

An engraved still of the model: the specimen-cabinet drawer, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

in-house model

A specimen-cabinet drawer

An in-house model (HombreOils): the drawer of the /library specimen cabinet; nominal size.

One drawer of the specimen cabinet on the Library page, where the glossary’s terms are kept like specimens: a walnut drawer with a brass pull and label frame. An in-house model; its size is nominal.

10.6 cm tall, 31.4 cm across · in-house · GLB 15 KB · USDZ 27 KB · more on The Library

A still of the model: the proof flacon.

in-house model

The proof flacon

An in-house model (HombreOils): a proof flacon, not a product; nominal size.

The house’s proof flacon, a cut-glass bottle with a stopper, modelled in-house to test the site’s glass; not a product and not for sale. Nominal size.

nominal size · in-house · GLB · USDZ · more on Science: extraction

A still of the model: the copper alembic.

in-house model

The copper alembic

An in-house model (HombreOils), placeholder geometry: a generic copper still; nominal size.

A copper alembic still - pot, head and swan neck - the apparatus of distillation, in which steam carries a plant’s volatile oil over to be condensed. An in-house model with placeholder geometry (a generic still, not a measured historical one); nominal size.

nominal size (0.55 m) · in-house · GLB · USDZ · more on Science: extraction

The molecules

32 molecules, each PubChem’s computed 3D conformer , a model, not a photograph of a molecule , drawn as ball and stick without its hydrogens, at one ångström to 4 cm. Each name opens its record page, where the model can be placed or turned, with its drawing and PubChem number.

the catalogue as data: /data/ar/ar-set.json · every credit on the credits