01 The origin of incense in ancient Egypt
The earliest recorded perfumes originated in mysterious ancient Egypt, where people soaked the perfume in oil and strained the liquid with a cloth, or rubbed the petals into animal fat to absorb and preserve the scent. The perfume was called "balm" because there was no way to refine the alcohol.
02Alabaster containers the earliest perfume packaging
As early as BC, Egyptian glass workshops produced glass artifacts of various shapes. At that time, the common glass perfume bottle body is mostly opaque or transparent dark blue shape, decorated with zigzag color stripe pattern. But because of the high cost and the immaturity of the glass process, the egyptians still used alabaster vessels of different shapes to hold different types of spices, and the packaging culture continues to this day from that time.
03Age impression "Cleopatra"
The use of balm was even a political issue in ancient Egypt, where it was illegal not to use it in public places. After death, ancient Egyptians paid more attention to the use of spices to keep the body forever, which shows that ancient Egyptians attach importance to spices and oil.
In the time that all sweet is in the whole people, ancient Egypt was born more a famous "perfume spokesman", the Creole Petra that having Egypt colourful empress to say is fond of perfume, know well the way that spice uses, often use perfume to soak her sail. It not only made Julius Caesar and Anthony fall at his feet one after another, but also consolidated the power of the queen by increasing her authority and female charm through aroma.
Luckily, after a team of experts, you can create a rich, spicy, lightly musky cleopatra perfume based on myrrh, a common ingredient in ancient times, with cardamom, green olive oil and cinnamon.
Post time: May-06-2022