Medical Chamber
Room Spell presents: MEDICAL CHAMBER
Step inside a Victorian theatre of learning, as a preserved corpse is being slit open for study. Take a seat at a leather-clad viewing area, as a number of unusual and contrasting scents greet your nostrils. The main note of this blend is formaldehyde, which was used for preserving dead bodies (or parts of dead bodies). In a medical chamber of autopsy, the astringent scent of formaldehyde would be ever-present. At the base of this scent profile sits leather, along with a slightly metallic odour of dried blood, mixed with a brass polish odour. The middle notes in this profile; lavender and chamomile, are used as a way to bridge the gap between the base and top notes. Both lavender and chamomile were used in medical chambers, to mask the more unpleasant odours of severe infection, decomposition and radical surgeries. Formaldehyde and turpentine sit proudly on the top of this blend, which both provide a surgically-precise note of extreme cleanliness. Visit a point in history where antiseptic knowledge was growing and where many exploratory procedures, which were often deadly, were being performed on a daily basis.