For now, this page focuses on extant examples of pomanders; while many portraits show pomanders worn at the end of a girdle (as in the 1564 portrait of Anne Fernely), sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's a pomander or just a fancy tassel or similar ornament. (For another nifty and clearly-a-pomander example from portraiture, there's also this 1518 portrait of a man by Jacob Cornelisz von Oostsanen, and this collection of illustrations on Wikimedia.)

See also Girdle Tassels: Pomanders for a few more examples, The Painted Face for pomander recipes from 1573 and 1609, Scents of the Middle Ages for materials commonly used in pomanders and recipes from 1606 and 1615, and Stefan's Florilegium: Pomanders.

From the 16th century descriptions, it appears that "pomander" can be the term for the actual scented stuff (and can, in fact, refer to scented beads, as "a cheyne of pomaindes, with buttons of silver betwene" and "a cheyne of pomaunder with a verey small ragged perle" in the New Year's Gifts to Queen Elizabeth, 1577-8), or the fancy container for the scented stuff.

• Pomander, Italy, 14th century; silver with gilding and niello
About the bordyre of the seid couche were xij appuls callid pomendambres, wrought withouten curiously of gold, garnysht of mugles and alle othir precious sauours of muskis recensitiues and restoratiues.

Cleveland, John G. White Collection q091.92-C468

• Pomander, c. 1400-1700; copper alloy
• Silver-gilt pomanders, Germany, 15th and 16th century
• Silver-gilt pomander, 16th century; and gilt-copper pomander, 15th century, both made in Germany
• Silver-gilt pomander, end of the 15th century
By the Lady Margaret Strainge, a little round mounte of golde to conteyne a pomaunder in it.

From the New Year's Gifts to Queen Elizabeth, 1561-2

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By the Lady Heniaige, a pomaunder gar' with golde and 12 sparks of rubies and perles pendaunt, per oz.

From the New Year's Gifts to Queen Elizabeth, 1578-9

• Pomander, 16th century; gold with diamonds (and other segmented pomanders)
• Pomander attached to a girdle, 16th century
• A wooden pomander found on the Mary Rose, 1545
• Pomander of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Pomander in the shape of a death's-head (skull), 16th century (see also these photos for a similar pomander, including how it opened and its inscription, as well as a portrait in which a similar pomander appears)
• Pomander, Germany, 16th century
• Pomander, Germany, 16th century; silver (also here, here, and here)
• Design for a pomander by Wenzel Hollar, based on one by Albrecht Dürer
• Skull-shaped pomander, c. 1600, in gold with white enamel and rubies; interior has a sponge and perfume compartments
• Pomander, c. 1600-1619; silver, parcel-gilt (V&A M.91-1919)
• Gold pomander with enamel and pearls, made in central Europe c. 1620-1640
• Pomander, Low Countries, c. 1640; silver
• Book-shaped pomander, 17th century, silver; see also personal ornament at the Hunt Museum for another book-shaped silver pomander
• Pomander, Spain, 17th century; silver-gilt