Smelling the Bouquet: Plants & Scents in the Garden

May 2, 2025 - March 31, 2026
11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Missouri Botanical Garden > Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum
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Currently on view at the Garden's Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, the Smelling the Bouquet exhibition explores the spectrum of scents plants create, inspired by the diverse live and scientific collections at the Garden.

The highlight of the exhibition is the opportunity to sniff over two dozen scents that include several interpretive fragrances of the Garden’s live plants as well as botanical compounds renowned for use in perfumery. Artisan perfumers Shawn Maher and Weston Adam—both based in the St. Louis region—created these interpretive fragrances and provided these compounds in the Main and Lower Level galleries. In the Museum’s South gallery, olfactory artist Gayil Nalls, PhD features her botanical scent artwork, World Sensorium, that offers a unique sensory encounter with the importance of aromatic plants to the collective human experience.

Included with Garden admission.


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