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39 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, where it comes from and what it 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. Sizes say whether they were measured or chosen.

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 Radler object.

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

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.

In the room
17.9 cm tall, 10.1 cm across. H × W 17.9 × 10 cm (the museum’s measurement); shown at that size
Licence
CC0 1.0 (Smithsonian Open Access) · credit: 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
Model
15,000 triangles (simplified from 100,000)

The files GLB 727 KB · USDZ 1.4 MB

On the pages History

An engraved still of the model: a red rose, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

fragrance material

A red rose

A 3D model of a garden red rose by Lassi Kaukonen (CC BY 4.0), not a botanical specimen of Rosa × damascena; simplified and scaled to about life size here.

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

A single red rose on its stem, a 3D model by Lassi Kaukonen ("Red rose", CC BY 4.0) - the same model the site’s rose renders use. It is a garden rose, not a specimen of the Damask rose (Rosa × damascena) grown for rose oil; it shows the flower whose petals are distilled for rose otto and extracted for rose absolute. Simplified for the web and scaled to about life size (45 cm): the size is a choice, not a measurement.

In the room
45 cm tall, 27.8 cm across. No measurement: scaled to 45 cm, about life size (a choice)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 · credit: "Red rose" by Lassi Kaukonen, CC BY 4.0, simplified and rescaled (changes made)
Model
13,222 triangles (simplified from 214,660)

The files GLB 696 KB · USDZ 1.3 MB

On the pages Rosa damascena Mill. · rose absolute · rose otto (rose oil; Bulgarsko rozovo maslo, PGI)

An engraved still of the model: a lemon, standing in for the bergamot, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

fragrance material

A lemon (a citrus stand-in)

A lemon (Citrus × limon), not a bergamot: no openly licensed 3D bergamot was found. A Poly Haven model (CC0) at its real size.

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

A lemon, 3D-scanned by Poly Haven (Kuutti Siitonen, CC0), at its real size (about 7 × 7 × 9.5 cm). It stands in for the bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia), a related citrus whose peel oil is cold-pressed: no openly licensed 3D model of a bergamot was found. The bumpy rind is where citrus peel keeps its oil glands.

In the room
9.5 cm tall, 6.9 cm across. About 6.9 × 6.8 × 9.5 cm (Poly Haven’s dimensions); shown at that size
Licence
CC0 1.0 (Poly Haven) · credit: "Lemon" by Kuutti Siitonen, Poly Haven, CC0
Model
4,012 triangles

The files GLB 326 KB · USDZ 473 KB

On the pages Citrus bergamia Risso · bergamot essential oil (olio essenziale di bergamotto)

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 (Radler Parfums), drawn from the method, not from a measured historical chassis; nominal size.

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

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.

In the room
7 cm tall, 80 cm across. Nominal size (the in-house model’s own units)
Source
Radler Parfums, in-house (the site’s build)
Licence
in-house
Model
192 triangles (simplified from 228)

The files GLB 30 KB · USDZ 46 KB

On the pages 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 (Radler Parfums): the drawer of the /library specimen cabinet; nominal size.

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

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.

In the room
10.6 cm tall, 31.4 cm across. Nominal size (the in-house model’s own units)
Source
Radler Parfums, in-house
Licence
in-house
Model
408 triangles

The files GLB 15 KB · USDZ 27 KB

On the pages The Library

A still of the model: the proof flacon.

in-house model

The proof flacon

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

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

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.

In the room
Nominal size
Source
Radler Parfums, in-house
Licence
in-house
Model
the in-house file as it is

The files GLB · USDZ

On the pages Science: extraction

A still of the model: the copper alembic.

in-house model

The copper alembic

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

To place it in your room, open this page on an iPhone or iPad (AR Quick Look) or an Android phone (Google Scene Viewer). The files below open in any 3D viewer.

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.

In the room
Nominal size (0.55 m)
Source
Radler Parfums, in-house
Licence
in-house
Model
the in-house file as it is

The files GLB · USDZ

On the pages 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 opens on its own record page, where it can be placed or turned.

the catalogue as data: /data/ar/ar-set.json · sources and licences per model above, and on the credits