Foreword / Martine Gosselink --
Smell, art and perception --
Fleeting - Scents in colour. An introduction / Ariane van Suchtelen --
A whiff of time - What our noses can tell us about the past / Caro Verbeek --
Smell as one of the five senses / Ariane van Suchtelen --
Odours in art - depicting the invisible / Lizzie Marx --
The smell of daily life --
'Sweet-smelling' in the seventeenth century: on hygiene and body odours / Bianca M. du Mortier --
Smell and health / Lizzie Marx --
'Vostre illustrissime saleté': stench as an environmental problem in the cities of Holland / Jaap Evert Abrahamse --
Odours from overseas / Lizzie Marx --
Perfume and books of secrets / Lizzie Marx --
Constantijn Huygens: amateur perfumer / Ineke Huysman.
