World's largest perfume museum in Guangzhou features 300 unique scents from around the globe
發佈日期: 2025-07-30 22:00
TVB News
The world's largest perfume museum opened in Guangzhou earlier this month.
Visitors can experience about 300 unique scents from all over the world.
The museum hopes to honour and promote fragrance culture, while contributing to Guangzhou's tourism industry.
Stepping into the museum, a perfume-making room inside the Edfu Temple comes to view.
The temple is believed to be built in the 2nd century BCE in Egypt.
The priest is said to use ingredients like pine resin and myrrh to create Kyphi, a traditional scent that was offered to God.
Visitors can smell the scent from such set-ups using these instruments in the museum.
The "time travelling" journey of these fragrances requires much effort.
MIA WENG, Deputy Director of Xuelei Fragrance Museum: "When we do the curation, we also went to Egypt to search the original scenario, how the priest actually remake the incense. We ask our perfumer to read all the articles and books with us to recreate this old formula. This is how we perceive the formula in the scene that now our audience can smell."
The museum also demonstrates different tools used by people to smell fragrances throughout history.
For example, this silver ball, used by the beloved consort Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty, has a special design feature.
MIA WENG: "It is very popular at the time among celebrities and the young ladies. They will put them in their carriage, also in their beds and chambers. When they put the incense in the little ball, in the middle of the ball, actually it can always keep its balance. It will not fall away no matter how you move it."
The museum also introduced digital technology to help visitors find their own "fragrance DNA." After tapping the card and smelling the fagrances, visitors can score points on the touchscreen, and then they can retrieve their own fragrance report afterwards.
The director hopes that the museum can become a central spot for fragrance lovers worldwide.
VINCENT WENG, Director of Xuelei Fragrance Museum: "we want our audience to come in and realise the heritage in our blood, that the fragrance culture actually has been in history for over thousands of years. We hope eventually one day we will become a signature spot for Guangzhou and even China."
The museum is in a trial run, the ticket price is 98 yuan during this period.
