don t waive it to close! don t waive it too close! it s not great! is that what the canal would have smelled like here? there are indeed elements of, yeah, polluted canal smell. so it has sulphur. it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes. excrement, your own. excrement, urine components in there. also, the sulphuric component leads you to the military, the gunpowder that was actually stored in this building. this is the headquarters or used to be the headquarters of the dutch admiralty, so they were the the military force that went with the east india company to actually enforce labour, to make use of all kinds of violence to get that luxury spice trade into the dutch republic. this isn tjust a touristic novelty. time, money and expertise have been spent making these smells as accurate as possible.