Do not think perfume is the invention of modern, ancient people long ago recognized that this “magic water” in its benefits. Egyptians first used as a religious flavor. Every evening, they gave a spice made from 16 kinds of “tribute” dedicated to God. Soon, the Egyptians also recognize that with the fragrance of medicinal effectiveness, so these spices Xiang Gao also be used to deal with anti-corrosion on the body. The history of mankind is the first perfume Egyptians invented the “gods and the Philippines”, was not due to the discovery of high-grade ethanol refining methods, so precise, that perfume should be called “sesame oil.”
Of course, the perfume is not just Egyptians “patent” of ancient Greece, Rome, Persia and other countries have used. To 1500 BC, Egypt Yan after the regular 15 different smell the perfume and bath oil to even use the perfume to soak her sails. The 14th century, Hungary created the first modern perfume, which is a mixture of alcohol and flavor. In 1709, Italian law Li Na in Cologne, Germany, with flowers perilla oil, vanilla and Morocco, rosemary, cardamom, lavender, lemon juice and alcohol made of a magical Yixiang assail the nostrils of the liquid, Known as the “Cologne Water” (also called the information “cologne”). In 1533, Pope married to the daughter of King Henry II of France, she became the initiator of the French perfume culture. Her perfume division opened the first of the Paris perfume, after the love of fashion and cosmetics for the French perfume showed extraordinary enthusiasm, upper-class perfume became hot fashion items, a number of French emperor every perfume on the situation there 10 minutes alone, such as Louis XIV, Napoleon and Louis XVI. Louis XVI is said to the scaffold, did not forget his orders to buy the latest perfume, which can be seen on the emperor’s obsession with perfume!
Of course, there is no lack of Our Chinese perfume and the use of the records. In the Qing Dynasty of China, Chinese people have their own production of good perfume. Empress Dowager Cixi, such as is used in the perfume of his own invention, alcohol, water, flowers Naidong through a mixture of three processes. Not only smell fragrance, but also maintain skin elasticity! “A Dream of Red Mansions” has the “Cold Pill” and “powder” to describe, they are derived from natural plants from Ninglian. At that time, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing and other places are producing powder, sesame oil “old” and its Zhixi Ni cool, fragrant scent, but also for China’s aesthetic demands.