The Tenth anniversary of Oita Fragrance Museum

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The performers and the visitors surrounding them

Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff)

The course commemorating the tenth anniversary of Oita Fragrance Museum was held on Nov. 25 at Oita Fragrance Museum. It was opened as a multicultural museum which acknowledges wide needs from tourism to utilization of fragrance's research.

The course has two parts of a lecture and a concert. The first lecture was by Kiyoshi Toko who is a professor in Kyusyu graduate school majoring in system information science. In the lecture, Toko mainly explained about the sense of taste and smell which can be said the sensitivity of human being. He said that we could not know them if we analyzed the chemical substances especially smell because there wasn't basic smell. Furthermore, the nose has far many receptors of glomerulus than tongue according to him. He said, “The world of smell is severe which needs enormous sensitiveness.”

The second part was concert whose theme was ‘Coacting of the Fragrance of Marie Antoinette and Fragrance Scale Music of Piesse’. In the concert, the
atmosphere of the rococo period was reproduced by the fragrance which was made by imaging the fragrance Marie Antoinette loved and Scale Music in which the smell was expressed by sound. Three players performed, and each person played the baroque flute, harpsichord, and cello in the room where filled with the fragrances. One of the pieces they played was written by Michiaki Iwashita, the player of baroque flute, using the Music Scale for this concert.

Music Scale was made by G. W. Septimus Piesse. He applied intervals into fragrances and arrange them like the heavy smell is the low voice and the light smell is the high-pitched. Piesse also paid attention to their harmony so the intervals which are different octave each other are compatible because they are put as they are the same line. Furthermore, the intervals which are the consonant note of do, mi, so are also put like that.


The fragrance of Marie Antoinette was reproduced for the first time following to the left records. Marie Antoinette is known for having loved the fragrance and the most favorite one throughout her life was what was included the image of Petit Trianon, the palace where she lived. It is said that she asked her perfumer “I want you to inject Petit Trianon in this perfume bottle. I want to carry it whenever I go out because I love this place.” 

Music Scale by Piesse
The Fragrance of Petit Trianon

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