Thursday, January 15, 2009

HISTORY OF PARFUME (Part 2)


Alexander The Great to be one of the causes of the emergence of outbreaks of perfume in the Greek state. Like a plague, all of Greek society at that time affected derangement perfume. Finally, increased productivity, perfume, and even exceed the needs of Egyptians. This is evident from the number of needs the same amount of perfume with the amount of food needs.

At that time the Greek even many do anything mad, they even want the perfume Myrrhinne, the perfume made of myrrh, honey, flower fragrance, and wine. In addition, they also use scent to the body as a useful stress remover, perfume is also used for bathing and, of course, to the romance.

Madness to make this the Greek King Solomon, the king who ruled at that time issued a prohibition order to sell perfume. This is certainly a misfortune for the Greek people, but the madness of the perfume is difficult for the Greek and removed secretly consume perfume. Some of them make themselves at home and they have to buy the house from which to produce perfume.

This is the birth of a new perfume fragrance, is Theophrastus was a gardener who found a new fragrance. He found the aroma of the oil produced from the flowers and she is the person who first found the aroma.

Greek people like perfume until the end of life, they put a bottle of perfume with the aroma of liked them in the chest and to the poor who can not afford to buy, they paint a picture of preferred perfume bottles in their graves. For Greece, perfume is not only to create a scent the room, but also the pride and self esteem. Next will be discussed on the development of the perfume in the Roman state in the next article.

No comments: