The History of perfume

Have you ever wondered how perfume was discovered and who were the ones who discovered that you could extract scent from living things and put it into a bottle? Well, if you wondered, here are some quick answers.

For one, the word perfume is a Latin word 'per fumum' (not parfum, as one would have assumed, unfortunately) and it seems that the history of perfume goes way back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. The Romans and Persians were big on using and making perfume too; the Indians, however, had their own way of making perfume...burning incense. Unsurprisingly, the first person to ever 'discover' perfume is a woman named Tapputi from Mesopotamia. From one nation to another, it passed on until it came to the hands of Europeans who learned it from the Hungarians - the Europeans has been introduced to what we commonly known as 'modern perfume' today. It contains essential oil and alcohol solution and first bottled late 1300's. The Europeans then called it 'Hungary Water'....I know, how apt.

France then took on the new discovery full force because they know NOW that scent can bottled up and used.

The first official and commercial form of perfume came in the 16th century worked on by two French, Catherine de' Medici and Rene le Florentin and they did it via the most secretive manner possible - a secret underground passageway! There was turning back now....during the Renaissance period, perfume was only worn by the rich and famous. No peasant can ever afford to wear perfume. From then on, the French and some other European nations grew their raw materials on their own. Aromatic flowers and plants were grown in order to fuel the ever-growing demand for perfume.

There is a link between perfume-making and aromatherapy and both are related because they make use of the natural scent of flowers and plants to motivate, inspire, calm, relax, attract and cause a stir in society. The scent emitting from a bottle of perfume can be so powerful that it, literally, makes people feel attractive and young all over again.

Perfume is, indeed, an incredible bottle of magic.

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