New sensory experience at Denbighshire historic house
The house has introduced immersive aromas in each of its period rooms, adding to the period costumes, soundscapes, and activities introduced last year.
These scents, crafted by AromaPrime, creators of speciality aromas for museums and tourist attractions, aim to transport visitors through the centuries.
Visitors can expect to encounter the rich, smoky aroma of tallow candles in the medieval room, fruit punch in the parlour, biscuits in the Edwardian room, and delicate roses in the Georgian bedroom.
Councillor Emrys Wynne, lead member for Welsh language, culture and heritage, said: "The use of scent in museum and heritage settings is nothing new, but what has increased is our understanding of how the sense of smell is the one most linked to emotion and memory.
"Imagine using your sense of smell to relive the past.
"I urge everyone to come and see (and smell!) what it's all about."
Each room now tells its story not just through its sights and sounds, but also through smell.
Visitors are invited to experience the story of Nantclwyd y Dre in this new way from Thursday to Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm (last entry at 3.30pm), until September 30, 2025.
For opening times and ticket prices, please visit the Nantclwyd y Dre website.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
South Wales Argus
an hour ago
- South Wales Argus
Lynne Neagle MS on bus £1 fares for young people in Torfaen
Young people with a valid free MyTravelPass card will be able to unlock single fares for just £1 or day passes allowing unlimited travel for just £3. The new £1 bus fares from the Welsh Government will better connect young people across Torfaen and beyond. Transport costs shouldn't be a barrier to young people achieving their goals or their ability explore Wales. Travelling to school, to work or to meet friends should be easy for everyone. If you are a young person in Torfaen and you don't already have a MyTravelPass I would encourage you to apply for one, to take full advantage of the travel discounts. More information on how the scheme works and details of how to apply for a free MyTravelPass is available at the website: mytravelpass. And from November 2025, the discounted travel ticket scheme will be extended to include five to 15-year-olds. Until then existing reduced fares for children will apply. It was great to hear the First Minister, Eluned Morgan recently say that cutting the cost of travel for young people and providing better transport for all is one of our Government's top priorities. Young people are our future, we must make sure we deliver on our promises to them. The travel pass scheme will initially run as a 12-month pilot – it will be for a future government to determine whether the scheme will be extended. Some £15m is being provided over two financial years (2025-26 and 2026-27) to support £1 bus fares for 16 to 21-year-olds as part of the Budget deal with the Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds. The Welsh Government will invest a further £7m to extend the scheme to 5 to 15-year-olds, from November 3. The scheme will be voluntary for bus operators. I hope our young people in Torfaen will take advantage of the scheme and plan a journey near or far. Lynne Neagle is Senedd member for Torfaen.
The Herald Scotland
4 hours ago
- The Herald Scotland
Irvine Welsh documentary was a fitting end to close the EIF
Irvine Welsh is full of stories, one reason he is such a prolific author. He isn't short of anecdotes, either, or of opinions. These range from politics to what he mockingly refers to as his 'practice', in other words his approach to fiction writing. But he also has the raconteur's gift of delivery and – whisper it – a whiff of the public intellectual to him. God knows we need that breed these days. Throw in his oeuvre (another term he probably hates) and his authorship of the most iconic Scottish novel of the last 30 years, and you can see why he is such a rich subject for a documentary. Unsurprisingly there have been a few to date. But Edinburgh-based film-maker Paul Sng's is undoubtedly the best, making it a welcome and fitting work to bring down the curtain on this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Artful, considered, imaginative, rewarding, though-provoking and pleasingly high concept, it avoids dwelling too much on past glories to foreground its subject in the present. Read More: We open, though, with a sort of career précis. It comes courtesy of clips from an onstage interview conducted at a Toronto literary festival by Welsh's fellow Edinburgh-er Michael Pedersen, fast approaching national treasure status himself. Still in Canada, we then see Welsh visit the offices of a couple of lifestyle/therapy gurus in order to take hallucinogenic drug Dimethyltryptamine. Known as DMT – or, sometimes, the businessman's drug, because the trip it induces can be had in a lunch-break – it offers Welsh a break from the reality which he says is 'not enough' for a writer and from which Sng takes his intriguing title. Having brusquely headed off some therapy-speak 'bullshit' from the shaven-headed wellness dudes – just give me the drug is Welsh's simple request – he takes to a mattress to enjoy the experience. We return to him there throughout, Sng using this as a framing device and as a slipway to launch the free-wheeling sequences in which Welsh, dressed in white suit and t-shirt, wanders through an abandoned factory as images and colours are projected onto him and the walls. These sequences are trippy and psychedelic, and have the effect of making it look as if he is in some liminal space, or is being invited to amble through a dream version of his own life. Much of the projections show old footage of Edinburgh, causing the author to reflect on his early life, the death of his parents, his use of drugs, his reasons for first picking up a pen. 'I wouldn't have been a writer if it hadn't been for Acid House,' he says at one point. Sng also drops in excerpts from Welsh's novels, accompanied by even trippier visuals. The obliging readers include Liam Neeson (a passage from The Acid House), Stephen Graham (Glue), Maxine Peake (Porno), Ruth Negga (Dead Men's Trousers) and, last, an unspecified voice with a very slight Australian lilt. Could it be? It is: Nick Cave, reading from The Blade Artist. Too much of this would be, well, too much, so interspersed with the curated readings and the jazzy visuals are more prosaic sections. We see Welsh and his wife Emma at Traquair House in the Borders following a book festival event. We watch him play football with childhood friends in Muirhouse, at the ground of Lowland League football club Civil Service Strollers, then chatting easily with them in the bar afterwards. We see him in LA with his manager, at his house in Miami, and at the boxing club he frequents there. Sng controls and presents his material well, though it's Welsh's own observations, thoughts and opinions which really drive the film. Some are just wryly humorous. 'Married to me? I think it would be a hard shift,' he says, the only time he answers an off-screen question. Others are more reflective. 'Writing ... is essentially a square go with yourself,' he says. Then, later: 'You steal from your own life. You're constantly putting fangs in your own fucking neck.' And: 'The most important resource you have is time. I basically retired 30 years ago, I've just been indulging myself since.' But it's one of his post-trip comments which lingers most in the mind. 'I'm no longer an atheist,' he says. 'It makes dying a more exciting thing than a thing to dread.' No sign of that yet, though – it's very much a life and an appetite for life which Paul Sng's commendable documentary celebrates and explores.
Wales Online
5 hours ago
- Wales Online
Tom Jones tells fans why he doesn't live in Wales as he says it's 'fantastic' to be home
Tom Jones tells fans why he doesn't live in Wales as he says it's 'fantastic' to be home The 85-year-old told crowds "Wales lives in me" Tom Jones thrilled fans in Cardiff on Wednesday evening (Image: John Myers) Tom Jones has kicked off two nights of brilliant music at Cardiff Castle as he entertains crowds with hit after hit from his famous repertoire. As he thanked the crowds who gathered in the historic grounds he claimed "Wales lives in me". As the crowd went silent, the Welshman started the concert with I'm Growing Old, a song about ageing. The emotional start to the concert left the crowd speechless and there wasn't a dry eye in the outdoor venue as he went into the second hit of the night, Tower of Song. As the Welsh legend greeted crowds, he said: "Thank you very much, is everyone feeling alright? Are we going to have a good time tonight?" Tom then went on to speak about his Welsh roots, saying it was "fantastic to be back". Crowds gathered in the castle grounds ahead of the highly-anticipated show (Image: Jon Myers) He said: "Diolch yn fawr first of all I would love to say, which I have to say, it's good to be home. Yes, Cardiff or as they say in Cardiff 'Cehdiff'. But actually I was born in Treforest a suburb of Pontypridd, which is only 12 miles down the road." Though Tom hasn't lived in Wales for many years, since his career went stratospheric in the 1960s and he travelled the world and had residencies in Las Vegas and a home in LA, he still sounds like he's walked Taff Street in Ponty daily for decades. The proud Welsh man put paid to the doubters and said: ""It always feels fantastic to be back in Wales. People tell me, but you don't live in Wales do you? "But Wales lives in me." The singer then broke into a chant of 'Oggy oggy oggy.' Later, the 85-year-old also told a story about his old school friend called Brian who he we wound up an old school teacher with. The singer remembered how the teacher smacked him so hard his ear drum burst, confessing that he still has problems with it today. Tom Jones is performing the first of two Cardiff Castle concerts which will take place tonight, August 20, and on Thursday, August 21. Tom Jones put on a passionate performance at the castle (Image: Indigo Jones) The gigs are the first time he has performed in the Welsh capital since he played in front of 30,000 fans across three sold-out shows at the same venue back in summer 2023. Thousands of fans queued for a while to enter the castle earlier in the evening, with our reporter on the scene saying she waited for 30 minutes before being allowed in. There had been some concerned fans prior to the Welsh concerts after Tom recently cancelled two shows in Germany due to illness. Tickets for Tom Jones at Cardiff Castle on Thursday, August 21 There are also tickets available for Tom Jones at Cardiff Castle on Thursday, August 21, on Ticketmaster. Prices start at £84. Article continues below Premium viewing platform standing tickets start at £218.90.
