2. Egyptians used a perfume called kyphi, which scholars believe is the odor that came from Tutankhamen’s tomb when it was excavated and opened.
3. Persian viewed perfume as a sign of rank in society.
Petals of the famous red rose covered the floor when Cleopatra first met Mark Anthony and it became a symbol of the House of Lancaster during the War of the Roses. The scent of those petals became famous worldwide and their scent increased greatly as the petals dried.
4. Persians widely used perfumes after bathing and men splashed musk type fragrances on their beards
5. Alexander the Great’s floors were sprinkled with scented waters and his clothes were imprinted with the perfumes of fragrant resins and myrrh.
6. The Greeks believed that the Gods invented perfume and they believed that you could mark a visit from a God by the scent of their presence.
7. Greeks played a major role in the development of perfume by categorizing them by the part of the plant from which they were made and documenting their compositions.
8. Romans held yearly festivals to celebrate the goddess of Flora and to celebrate the first flowers of the season.
9. In the Roman Senate House, the "world's first parliament", the Alter of Victory was sprinkled with incense before the day's commencing business.
10. In the famous Roman baths, bathers would get massaged with oils and ointments after they were done bathing in the warm waters.
11. In Roman banquet rooms mo meal was served without fragrant flowers and waters.
12. Constantine the Great as the first to bring scents into the Christian church. He burned oils and incense St. John-in-Lateran church, the home of early Popes for thousands of years. This ceremony continues to this day when the Pope gives his annual blessing of the Golden Rose.
13. The first perfumes were derived from bark of twigs and shrubs in the form of resins.
14. In Muslim religions, Mohammed, centers his faith on the enjoyment of material pleasures, including perfume. He promised his believers the Garden of Paradise where the most exotic perfumes are to be found.
15. An Arabian doctor, Avicenna, was the first to obtain the oil from flowers, known as attar, by distillation. This method was the first of its kind and made the making of perfume very popular with other manufacturers following his method.
16. The visitors to Arabian homes were sprinkled with rose water as a mark of esteem.
17. In India, perfume and scent was widely used in culture and religion. In fact, a huge bull in the temple at Tanjore in Madras is still rubbed everyday with perfumed oil until he shines.
18. The scent of patchouli was used to scent Indian shawls.
19. Chinese women wore their hair in buns that were wrapped with flowers whose fragrance would last until dawn.
20. In the year 1190 the first record of perfume sellers was made in Paris by the first registered letters of patent granted by Henry VI of England and France.
21. Francois Coty is widely considered to be one of the first and greatest perfumers of all time. It was his perfumes, his creations, that were his inspirations, but it was his ability to market these products that brought him the success he knew then and the Coty products still enjoy today.
22. Besides images and ideas, perfumers have said that their creations come from dreams, traveling expeditions, reading, and inhaling the scents all around them.
23. Perfumes are composed of three notes: notes of the head (top notes), notes of the heart (middle notes), and notes of depth (base notes). The top notes are the most volatile and evaporate the fastest, hence the name "notes of the head". Each of the notes creates is its own scent, yet blends with the others to create a smell, an emotion pieces.
24. The number of new perfumes being released each year has increased more than 400% since 1973.
25. Perfumers have found themselves at the four corners of the Earth trying to find an original scent, one that will be the completion to a palate, the final piece to create the finest perfume.
26. It is a fair and accurate consensus among the perfume industry, that packaging, such as the bottle the perfume comes in is half the sale and attraction for the woman shopper.
27. Perfume makers use raw materials from all over the world, including essential oils, extracts and concentrates derived from fruits, vegetables, flowers, woods, and other botanicals, animal products and raw fruits to create their scents.
28. The power of human scent is still a mystery as well as the fact of why certain scents appeal to certain individuals versus others.
29. Many perfume makers have tried to copy the natural “pheromones” that humans release, that are thought by psychologists to be the magic in attraction between the opposite sex.
30. The scent of a woman's perfume can drive a man crazy.
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