Associate Professor Rodolphe el-Khoury and Assistant Professors Carol Moukeiber and Christos Marcopoulos designed a scent for the exhibition "An Olfactory Archive: 1738-1969," which ran from Oct. 8-13 at the California College of Arts.

Called NJ Turnpike, the scent combines the smell of ozone, concrete, petrichor and geosmin to collapse a rainstorm into a single moment, bringing the country to the city, and joining the pavement with the sky.

Held in conjunction with the Test Sites symposium, the exhibition is the first devoted exclusively to the recent works of artisans and historians who harness scents, essences and fragrances in the reconstruction and preservation of historical spaces.

According to the exhibition's website, "in the past ten years, a surprising number of historians, preservationists, architects and artists have experimented with scents to record, represent and reconstruct historical buildings, interiors and agrarian and urban landscapes… This exhibition displays several examples of this recent work, creating a brief image of some possible and future archive of an olfactory past."

For more information, visit the Test Sites symposium's website.