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.
The first very small perfumers’ laboratories settled later, where everyone in principle elaborated and sold their aromatic prepared for their customers, according to their tastes and preferences. They were perfumes done to the liking of each noble and rich customer, but little by little the scent water consumption was extended. The French kings courts, particularly those of Luis XIV and Luis XV became great essences consumers, a little forced, because, in spite of their elegant dresses and their powdered wigs, and the pompous celebrations of Versailles, the perfumes scents were necessary to disguise the lack of hygiene and the bad general scents of the epoch.
During the French revolution the perfume market became paralysed, but the guillotine, that made roll the perfumed heads of the nobility, it gave name to a new aroma that was put fashionable; an only perfume denominated "Guillotines" whose origin does not know and it was sold between the revolutionaries and "sans culotte" until shortly after the waters returned to its channel.
With the ascent to the throne of Napoleon, great fan of the fragrances, it began a new time for perfumes. From then the perfumers, that in a short period of time they became from simple craftsmen to small industrialists, they gave the great impulse that, with time, it will turn perfumery into an industry that, anywhere in the developed world maintains an extraordinary dynamics, it moves astronomical amounts of money and employs - from the ones that investigate in the great laboratories, by the hundred, to the ones that sell the products -, a hundred of thousands of people anywhere in the world.
