Press & Media

Sofia Collette Ehrich has been Featured On:

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European Commission and Europa Nostra announce the winners of Europe’s top heritage awards 2025, 2025.

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European Heritage Nostra Awards, Odeuropa Nomination, 2025.

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Museum Next, What If the Secret to Memorable Museum Visits Is Right Under Your Nose? By Manuel Charr (2025).

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Nez Magazine, 5th Experimental Scent Summit: Olfactory culture under the Lisbon sky by Clara Muller, 2025.

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Interview with Claire Bown for the Thinking Museum podcast, Stimulating the senses: using smell to engage visitors, 2024.

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Save Cultural Heritage Group’s 90 Seconds Museum Talk 3.0 | Sofia C. Ehrich | The Sensesational Explorer | Scents and Heritage (2024)

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UCLA Global, Alumni Global (2023)

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Monocle, Raising a stink, Julia Webster Ayuso (2023)

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Interview with Tanya Mironova for the How I Became a Perfumer podcast, №2 – Curating Scents with Sofia Collette Ehrich, 2023.

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Atlas Obscura, Get a Whiff of Ancient Egypt’s ‘Scent of Eternity,’ Roxanne Hoorn (2023)

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Interview with Liam R. Findlay about City Sniffers: a smell tour of Amsterdam’s ecohistory (2022)

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American Historical Association History in Focus Podcast (2022)

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Odeuropa: How to Smell a Painting (2021)

Publications to date:

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Ehrich, Sofia Collette, et al. “Nose-first. Towards an olfactory gaze for digital art history.” CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 3064. CEUR, 2021.

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Lisena, Pasquale, et al. “Capturing the semantics of smell: the odeuropa data model for olfactory heritage information.” European Semantic Web Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.

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Marx, Lizzie, et al. “Making Whiffstory: A Contemporary Re-creation of an Early Modern Scent for Perfumed Gloves.” The American Historical Review 127.2 (2022): 881-893.

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Marx, Lizzie, et al. “Seeing Smell: Sourcing Olfactory Imagery Using Artificial Intelligence.” Arts et Savoirs 20 (2023).

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Lisena, Pasquale, et al. “An ontology for creating hypermedia stories over knowledge graphs.” SWODCH 2023, Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage. 2023.

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Ehrich, Sofia Collette, et al. “Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit: A ‘How-To’ Guide for Working with Smells in Museums and Heritage Institutions.” (2023).

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Leemans, Inger, et al. “Knowing by Sensing: How to Teach the History of Smell.” The American Historical Review 128.3 (2023): 1251-1264.

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Ehrich, Sofia Collette. “Crafting Intentional Scents: Enriching Cultural Heritage with Educational Olfactory Reproductions.” Amsterdam Museum Journal. (Re)Production. Issue #3, 2024.

Invited collaborative blog posts:

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Ehrich, Sofia; Zinnen, Mathias; Finding references to smell in artworks, March 2021.

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Ehrich, Sofia; The, Jenna, A Nose First Approach: Connecting historical depictions with scents of the past at Mediamatic, Amsterdam, May 2021.

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Ehrich, Sofia; Bembibre, Cecilia; Odeuropa x Mediamatic Workshop: Working with scent in GLAMs – Best Practices and Challenges; July 2021.

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Ehrich, Sofia; van Erp, Marieke; Leemans, Inger; Bembibre, Cecilia; Odeuropa Team Milestone: Our First In-Person, Hands-On Meeting; November 2021.

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Ehrich, Sofia; Kotsopoulou, Christina; Odeuropa x Berlin Center for Cold War Studies (BKKK) Workshop: Malodours as Cultural Heritage?; March 2022.

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Ehrich, Sofia; Launch of City Sniffers: A smell tour of Amsterdam’s ecohistory; August 2022.

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Ehrich, Sofia; Update – Follow Your Nose!; January 2023.

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Ehrich, Sofia; McQueen Alex; Launch of Odeuropa’s Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit: A ‘How-To’ Guide for Working with Smells in Museums and Heritage Institutions; November 2023.

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McQueen, Alex; Ehrich, Sofia; Reflections: Smell Culture Fair; December 2023.

Speaking engagements:

First International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge Workshop at LDK, “Nose-First. Towards an Olfactory Gaze for Digital Art History” (with Mathias Zinnen).

Odeuropa Workshop: Malodours as Cultural Heritage?, “Storytelling with Malodours in Guided Tours: Early Results from the Scents Created for the Museum Ulm”.

DASA Dortmund – Forschungskolloquium: Neue Wege der Konzeption und Reflexion von Museumsausstellungen, “The Impact of Smell in Museums: Towards a Descriptive and Evaluative Model for Olfactory Museum Tours” (with Inger Leemans).

NIAS Symposium Contested Objects: The Racial and Colonial Dimensions of Material Culture 2022, “How to engage with contested objects through embodied learning?’, A nose-on workshop” (with Inger Leemans, Marieke Hendriksen, and Maaike de Kleijn).

University Quarter with University of Amsterdam and KNAW Humanities Cluster 2022, “The Odeuropa Project- a whiff of how we are teaching computers how to smell.”

55th Seminar for Arabian Studies 2022, Scents of Arabia Panel, “How Can We Smell History?: presenting and communicating olfactory histories within the cultural sector.”

Atelier Néerlandais, Workshop Memory of Scent 2022, “A Perfumer Brief – How to Streamline Heritage Scent Development.”

Museum Next, Digital Exhibitions Summit 2022, “Making the Digital Multisensory.”

American Historical Association Conference 2023, “A Whiff in Time: mapping out modes of olfactory interpretation.” (part of an Odeuropa Panel with Inger Leemans, William Tullett, Cecilia Bembibre, and Kate McLean)

Europeana’s Digital Storytelling Festival 2023, “Making the Digital Multisensory: exploring modes of digital – olfactory curation.”

Odeuropa’s Smell Culture Fair’s “Hands-on Training and Workshop for the Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit,” 2023.

The Institute for Art and Olfaction’s Experimental Scent Summit 2024, “Experimental Scent at the Turku Museum Center.”

Museum Next, Museums and Public Programs Summit 2025, “Uncovering the Fragrant for Museum Public Programming.” (with Nezka Pfeifer from the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden)

Immersive Media Conference 2023 for the Swedish National Heritage Board, “How Can We Smell History? – mapping out modes of olfactory event curation.”

The World Taste and Smell Association’s World Taste and Smell Day 2023, “Kunstlicht’s Special Event: Nosetalgia.”