Rights & Reuse

Images from open collections

191 prints, paintings, botanical plates, pages of old books, early photographs and photographs of museum objects, each under the rights statement read on its host’s own record. Each is captioned with its museum or library where it appears, and listed image by image on Images from open collections.

• Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0): 65 images
• Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0): 37 images
• Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection): 34 images
• Public domain (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, CC0): 28 images
• Public domain (Biodiversity Heritage Library): 15 images
• CC0 (Wikimedia Commons file record): 4 images
• No known restrictions on publication (Library of Congress): 4 images
• Public domain (Wikimedia Commons file record): 4 images

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons

320 photographs and drawings in the material galleries and the home page’s mosaic, each used under the license stated on its own Commons page and credited under the photograph with its author and license; the full list is Photographs of the materials.

• CC BY-SA 4.0: 134
• CC BY-SA 3.0: 57
• Public domain: 31
• CC BY 2.0: 28
• CC0: 25
• CC BY 4.0: 24
• CC BY-SA 2.0: 9
• CC BY 3.0: 7
• CC BY 3.0 us: 4
• CC BY 2.5: 1

3D models, textures and light maps

Used in the films, the renders and the models you can turn or place in your room, each simplified or recoloured for the site; the full wording is on Credits & provenance.

• “Red rose” by Lassi Kaukonen, on Sketchfab, CC BY 4.0.
• “Vodka distillation set” (MT-E/3446), District Museum in Tarnów, published by the Virtual Museums of Małopolska, CC0 1.0.
• “Lidded incense burner (xianglu)” (F1947.15a-b), Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution; 3D model by the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office, Smithsonian Open Access, CC0.
• Six museum objects by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo (HCM 233, HCM 228, MG 087, MG 008, MG 086, HCM 130), CC BY 4.0, simplified and converted by Radler Parfums.
• “Lemon” by Kuutti Siitonen, Poly Haven, CC0.
• Light maps and photo textures from Poly Haven and textures from ambientCG, CC0 1.0, used inside the renders.

Facts and data

Plain facts, such as a boiling point, a CAS number or the year a perfume was launched, are not ours to license, and quoted source text belongs to its authors. Every fact on a record carries its source, or the basis it rests on, beside it; 720 sources are on file, and the evidence register lists the claims the pages make with their sources. The databases most used:

• Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): names, dates, places and identifiers on the records, each cited with the date it was read; its structured data is released under CC0 1.0.
• PubChem (National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine): the molecules’ identities, weights and computed 3D conformers, credited with each compound number on its page (60 compound records on file).
• GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. doi.org/10.15468/39omei, CC BY 4.0: the accepted names of the plants.

Typefaces and software

• Bodoni Moda, Archivo and IBM Plex Mono, with a small Greek-letter subset of Noto Sans, self-hosted, under the SIL Open Font License (Bodoni Moda, Archivo, IBM Plex Mono, Noto Sans); IM Fell English (SIL Open Font License) is lettered into some renders.
• three.js (MIT license) draws the 3D viewer and the realtime plates; its notice is in licenses.txt.