Venus de Milo to get an extra whiff of glamour
(Artdaily.org)

She was one of the great beauties of antiquity, and soon we are going to find out what the `Venus de Milo` smells like. The Louvre in Paris has asked two of France`s top `noses` -- otherwise known as perfume creators -- to come up with fragrances to go with some of its greatest treasures. Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac roped in some of the biggest stars of the olfactory universe to help them find the right notes to go with statues of the goddess of love as well as the `Winged Victory of Samothrace`. The pair, founders of the Officine Universelle Buly perfumerie, were also asked to pair fragrances with Ingres` two most sensual works, the `Grande Odalisque` and `The Valpincon Bather` as well as Gainsborough`s `Conversation in a Park`. But for now there will be no perfume for `Mona Lisa` -- the museum`s most famous work -- who will guard her fragrance, like so much else, secret. Controversially, among