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Perfume Culture
Perfume, Latin is called "smoked", meaning burning scented trees.
In the East, people think perfume of spices originated in the Pamirs, in the West, it is considered 20 BC - 18th century birthplace of ancient Egypt is the spice. Manufacture of perfume raw spices into natural spices and synthetic fragrances, these spices are about 1500 kinds of species.
Ancient times, people often fragrant flowers mixed in animal fat in the body create sesame oil painting. Later, the Arabs invented the extract from the flower perfume made of liquid precipitation method and began to export worldwide famous Goree perfume. Until the 18th century, the emergence of alcohol mixed with spices modulation of perfume. At that time men and women are right perfume showed abnormal enthusiasm, so that the "era of perfume." Louis XV's court is known as "fragrant palace." Use custom perfume spread from the palace to the public sectors, so that the whole of Paris into a "Xanadu."
19 th century, led by France to create synthetic fragrances.
You can no doubt say, how long human history, the history of perfume there how long. Because far before man appeared, those flowers and herbs on earth as beautiful views of the glittering part exist to it. But our ancestors used the memory of perfume, coming to us have become blurred, the annihilation of history as time goes by and more difficult to trace.
Perfume history researchers pursued, and finally in the Nile Thebes (Thebes) to touch a little solid and reliable basis. The Queen special (Hatshepsut) Temple which has a series of mural depicting 3,500 years ago, an ancient Egyptian fleet to "PENGTEH land" (Land of Punt) to look for something called " myrrh "(Myrrh) spices, their prey also includes other types of mysterious plants, which exudes a rich fragrance of exotic flavor of the plant. Reportedly the largest in the ancient spice plants "myrrh" and "frankincense" (Frankincense), only grows in the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, Somalia, after it sailed through the Red Sea, that is called the land of spices PENGTEH always appear in the eyes. When people are convinced of this.
Now able to ascertain that the Egyptian fleet sailed down the Nile, to reach places than ever before as more people so far. Fleet Albert (Albert) lake found PENGTEH land. It was in what is now Uganda. But there does not grow "myrrh" and "frankincense." So research on the history of perfume seems to have entered the uncertain situation. Maybe this is it, the perfume thing, always exudes so little mysterious and subtle taste. In those earlier days, incense and oils have enjoyed an important position, we use the "perfume" the word of the original English word in Latin means "through smoke" (thought smoke). Wind systems in diffuse mist of incense, prayer soothe the spirit, the sense of smell to be entertained, the body relax. The famous "Recife" (Kyphi) incense, is a mixture of fragrant spices, temples at sunset and at night the house, quietly burning.
