You
can visit handcrafted flower focal beads on the Beadshaper website at www.beadshaper.com/gallery?category_id=1764 . The
flowers look fragrant but you can’t smell the fragrance because they are glass.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
PERFUME
The
use of fragrant aromas goes back thousands of years. They were first used in
religious practices in the form of burning incense that produced a pleasant
scent. Incense burning began in Messopotamia about 4000 years ago. In fact, the
word perfume comes from the Latin phrase "per fume" (through smoke).
The Egyptians were important in the development of ancient perfumes and
invented the idea of perfume bottles. The Egyptian ideas of perfume later
spread to other ancient civilizations. Perfumes were important in the baths of
ancient Rome. Avicenna, an Arab chemist in medieval times developed the process
of extracting perfumes from flowers. The use of perfumes spread to Europe, even
before the coming of the Renaissance. Medieval and Renaissance rulers in Europe
granted charters to perfumers. Various methods of extracting and preparing
perfumes commercially were developed in Europe with the beginning of modern
science in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first synthetic chemical to be used
as a perfume was developed by Fougère Royale, Houbigant in France in 1882. The
chemical perfume manufacturers that we know today mostly came into existence in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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