The Paris Review - Scheele's Green, the Color of Fake Foli

Scheele’s green was an arsenic-laced dye, emerald-hued and blisteringly poisonous. Those who wore the hue were cursed with a rash or the occasional oozing sore. Those who made the clothes perished.

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