Their habits and daily choices filled the spaces they frequented and represented some traces of their personalities.

While Bartolomé Mitre perfumed rooms with the cologne he used to cover up the smell of opium, which he smoked to relieve the headaches caused by a war injury; Sarmiento was well known for his fondness of quimbo eggs, a spanish recipe from colonial time that flooded his personal surroundings with a characteristic sweetness. Towards the end of the century, Nicolás Avellaneda used a lotion with natural lavender extract on a daily basis to groom and care for his hair, a practice that endures to our present day.