Donna E.
8/11/2025
Wonderful experience! Delightful outdoor garden with hundreds of scents to explore. They're very knowledgeable, and there's good signage that makes the tour self guiding. Allow an hour for this...
Aftel Archive of Curious Scents
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1518 Walnut St
Berkeley, CA 94709
A small museum devoted to natural aromatics and artifacts. Smell more than 300 essences -- & take 3 samples home. Touch & smell raw botanical materials that become perfume essences, pour over turn-of-the-century perfume books, compare 100-year-old essences to their modern counterparts. Every item in the Archive is authentic & original, some dating back hundreds of years. Open Saturdays. We require all visitors to wear masks during the entire visit and be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Shaf K.
2/17/2025
Incredible experience, bought tickets for this museum as a gift for my friends. Will absolutely be bringing back others from out of town. Everything was exquisitely considered. We learned so much...
Niketa R.
8/26/2024
My friend & I had a fun experience here! We bought tickets to celebrate her birthday. Both of us are very attuned to fragrances & how they affect our human scents, so we were excited to...
Debra P.
6/3/2025
A beautifully designed small museum with everything thoughtfully arranged to study and sample the history of scent.
Katt A.
5/25/2024
What a wonderful museum! I highly recommend checking this place out. It takes covid precautions, which is fantastic. The history is fascinating. And I love getting to look through books that are...
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