inga s keen to show me how the walking tours that are being planned can offer a whole new layer of historical detail. this is where the dutch east india company used to unload silks, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. ok. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it under your nose. 0oh! chuckles. maybe don t wave it too close! i mean, it s not great! it s not great, no! is that what the canal would ve smelled like here? there are, indeed, elements of, yeah, a polluted canal smell, so it has sulphur. it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes, excrement, urine components in there. but it s also, the sulphuric component also leads you from the water to the military might, to the gunpowder that was actually stored in this building. this is the headquarters or used to be the headquarters of the dutch admiralty,
company used to unload silks, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. 0k. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it under your nose. ooh! chuckles. maybe don t wave it too close! i mean, it s not great! it s not great, no! is that what the canal would ve smelled like here? there are, indeed, elements of, yeah, a polluted canal smell, so it has sulphur. it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes, excrement, urine components in there. but it s also, the sulphuric component also leads you from the water to the military might, to 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
through sometimes. there is a. so it s notjust nice. yeah, there s like a. there s a bit of a pong. laughs there s, like, there s.there s a sort of like a gentle edge of a bit. bit animalistic as well. yeah, and what s really interesting is knowing the history, it smells like one smell masking another smell. yeah. but it s notjust a novelty. inga s keen to show me how the walking tours that are being planned can offer a whole new layer of historical detail. this is where the dutch east india company used to unload silks, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. ok. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it under your nose. ooh! chuckles. maybe don t wave it too close! i mean, it s not great! it s not great, no! is that what the canal
in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also create. 0k. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it in under your nose. 0h! maybe. ! don t make it too close! i mean, it s not great. it s not great, no! is that what the canal would have smelled like here? there are indeed elements of. yeah, a polluted kind of smell. so, it has sulphur in. i mean, it has a kind of bathroom smell. yes. excrement, urine components in there. but it s also, the sulphuric component also leads you from the water to the military might, to 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 military force that went with the east india company to actually enforce labour, to make use
hard to find. there might also be, like, a bit of friction in there, so some of that leather still kind of comes through sometimes. there is a. so it s notjust nice. yeah, there s like a. there s a bit of a pong. laughs there s, like, there s.there s a sort of like a gentle edge of a bit. bit animalistic as well. yeah, and what s really interesting is knowing the history, it smells like one smell masking another smell. yeah. but it s notjust a novelty. inga s keen to show me how the walking tours that are being planned can offer a whole new layer of historical detail. this is where the dutch east india company used to unload silks, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. ok. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it under your nose. ooh! chuckles.