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 courts were perfumed. When Catherine of Médicis, the great ambassador of the perfume, left towards France to marry with king Henri II, she took, between her retinue, her deprived perfumer called Renato of Florence, who when arriving at Paris opened with great success a perfume store. It was spoken ill of him for knowing to compose equal well the perfumes than the poisons.
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