Reverse side has a 1909 calendar and indicates it is perfumed with Azurea. You can still smell it, I can best describe it as a mix of rose water and moth balls.
Found in "The Science of Common Things" by David A. Wells. Published by Ivison, Blakeman and Taylor, 1857.
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Sounds like an odd scent -- I'm sure it smelled much nicer back in 1909.
ReplyDeleteLovely blog!
Love the Art Nouveau of it!
ReplyDeleteI love that you could still smell the perfume a hundred years later. I find this doubly incredible since most scratch and sniff books from my youth have already lost their scent.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the pages of the book will be permanently infused with it.
Did anyone else see the word Azurea and think "blue urine"? Rose is a lot better than what went through my mind!
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