The concept of aromaticity is examined in terms of a delocalised ring current contribution to the proton NMR shielding of ferrocene and related compounds. The source of the ring current is derived as a delocalised contribution to the experimentally determined chemical shift, where the local contribution is calculated from predictions based on the experimental 13 C shielding tensors. Examined are dibenzenechromium, ruthenocene, benzene, hexamethylbenzene and several derivatives of ferrocene with attention to: (i) the effects of complexation of the benzene ring, (ii) the protons in an aliphatic bridge on a ferrocene cyclopentadienyl ring, and (iii) the electric field effects of the permanent electric dipole moment in pentamethylferrocene.