History of Perfume Bottles and Perfumery
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| Prehistory |
It has been repeated often that the history of perfumery is as old as the history of the humanity. We find literary or archaeological witnesses in the oldest civilizations, in the most remote cultures, that they tell to us about t ...
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| Mesopotamia |
LThe first written news that have arrived to us on the use of perfumes we find them in the Mesopotamian civilizations, cultural cradle of the western civilization.
Among the small boards of clay that the Sumerians us ...
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| Egypt |
The Mesopotamian cultures influenced all the others of their time remarkably and also on the next ones they followed to them in the course of history. Among the first it is possible to emphasize the old Egypt that fomented one of ...
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| Israel |
We have said before that the Egyptians imported products to elaborate their ointments and perfumes from different places and it is curious to state the fact, that the Bible relates to us, Joseph Jacob’s son, was sold by his brothe ...
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| Greece |
Following the thread of the history of perfumery we arrive at one of the most important landmark, Greece.
In classic Greece all that represented beauty, aesthetic, harmony, proportion, and balance it had a divine or ...
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| Etruria |
The old Etruria, that corresponds with the present Italian Tuscany geographically, it developed a native culture, differentiated from their neighbours, and it was considered mysterious for its origin. Even nowadays, the historian ...
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| Phoenicians and Carthage |
The Phoenicians, Cananeos of race and Semites of language, settled down 7,000 years ago, in a weak land strip between the sea and the Lebanon mounts. They were capable, intelligent and laborious people, that became rich with the ...
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| Rome |
The Greeks propagated the liking for perfume through their Mediterranean colonies, from the near east to the French and the Spanish coasts. Indeed from a Greek colony of the southern Italy went out the first barbers and perfumers ...
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| Islam |
The Byzantine empire, in the East, heir of Rome, it took its relief in the perfume art and it developed a very important industry, perhaps more than the one of Rome, for the fact of having more close the raw materials and to count ...
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| Renaissance |
Venice and Florence were the capitals of the perfumes during the Renaissance. The formulas of the old compositions recovered so the perfumery returned to sprout again with force in Europe. The Médicis and the Venetian Duxs court ...
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| Commercial Perfume Appearance |
France became the perfume empire. The glovers were the ones in charge to sell them with the perfumed gloves that came from the south of Spain where the Moors had introduced the young perfumed goat skin industry.
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