Perfume History

The smells of nature that come from flowers, sea, or land trees have always been with humans, so the idea of ​​creating artificial flavors quickly appeared, leading to perfume.

Ramon Planas Buera Perfume Museum of Barcelona says that since prehistoric times, when man discovered fire lit a pleasing aroma that rose into the sky, thinking of their use for religious rituals, offerings and prayers to the gods. But the story says that in 3500 BC, Sumer was first developed ointments and perfumes. About the same time, Egypt was gaining practice in cosmetic products and ordered the flowers and grasses separated into different groups according to the nature of their aromas. The priests completing their rituals with perfumes and ointments divine statues makeup and perfumes, perfume was also part of the ritual of embalming. In addition, women of high society of ancient Egypt wigs left in beef fat cones impregnated different perfumes.

The Greeks were those who acquired the expertise in the conservation of perfume bottles and built it. And from around the Mediterranean Sea, spread their customs, hairdressers and perfumers first originate from a Greek colony in southern Italy settled in Rome in the days of the Republic. The cosmetics was born with force at the time. The high-society women were filling the mouth of his servants with perfume, then perfume. Before or returns victorious battle, drops of perfume applied the standards of the legions. Like the perfumed salons, clothing, theaters, weapons and animals.



The Byzantines continued to advance with the Roman art of perfumery, but it was the Arabs who perfected the art of perfume, using alcohol stills for distilling essences support and developed sophisticated perfume.

In the East, the scent was brought to Japan by China, which contributed to its development and marketing. The Chinese in the sixth century were great craftsmen of gardening that spent much of their crops for the pressing of petals in the manufacture perfumes.

With the advent of Christianity, condemned the use of perfumes and cosmetics women considering its use "as the devil's schemes" used by women to charm men, so its use declined.

While in the Middle Ages remained in use among the most advantaged social classes, King Philip II Augustus was who established an award for which fixed the perfume outlets recognizing the profession of perfumer. A decision was upheld in 1357 by Juan II and later in 1582 by Henry III. In 1658, was expanded by Louis XIV France was getting the home of perfume.

During the Renaissance and after the invention of printing, antique perfume numerous treaties were translated and published in French and Italian. Florence and Venice became the capital of perfume, and evolved from the chemistry and quality improvement and distillation of essences.

The French Revolution was a turning point for perfumes, formerly in the hands of artisans and small manufacturers, and gained a boost that would make the perfume was one of the biggest most dynamic and profitable industries in the world.

Throughout the twentieth century, the perfume industry began to specialize in this technique of chemical quality, but also to reinvent itself. It was losing the battle against the big names when the perfume was then allied with them and created brands perfume. The attempted merger in the world of fragrance with fashion, uniting the efforts of designers and perfumers.

In this century perfumery and is part of society as an element and is subject to the designs of the market and follow the guidelines of the marketing department and the manufacturer or brand. According to some experts, the new millennium should convert and incorporate new technologies as genetics, for custom fragrances.