History
Four thousand years of scent, the ancient perfume vessels of Egypt, Greece and Rome, the alembic and the rose-water stills of the Islamic Golden Age, the glove-makers of Grasse, and the birth of modern synthetic perfumery.
Part of Perfume
26 moments in this segment.
- - The Ancient Origins of Perfume
- - Kyphi: The Ancient Egyptian Perfume
- - Ancient Egypt: alabaster perfume/unguent vessels
- - Recreating Tapputi's 3,200-Year-Old Perfume
- - Bronze Age Aromatics: Perfume at Pylos
- - Greek perfume vessels (aryballos/alabastron). )
- - Roman glass unguentaria (perfume bottles). )
- - Avicenna (Ibn Sina) - rose-oil distillation
- - Catherine de’ Medici - brought perfume to France
- - Santa Maria Novella - the oldest pharmacy
- - Johann Maria Farina - Eau de Cologne
- - Grasse: The World Capital of Perfume
- - Grasse - the perfume capital of France
- - The perfumer’s organ (the nose’s workbench). ) The subject dates from 1950; this photograph was taken in 2009.
- - Chanel No.5 and Aldehydes Explained. 5 history.
- - The Story of Fragrances - How Perfume Is Made
- - Guerlain - the historic Paris house. 1900; this photograph was taken in 2012.
- - Violet Enfleurage - How Perfume Is Made
- - Chanel No.5 - the 1921 landmark. 1921; this photograph was taken in 2015.
- - Perfume Through The Decades
- - Guerlain Shalimar (1925). ) The subject dates from 1925; this photograph was taken in 2021.
- - Enfleurage at Robertet, Grasse
- - La historia del perfume (Spanish). ), a look at history of perfume.
- - Passion for Scent - The True Story of Perfume
- - Inside the flower fields of Grasse for Chanel No.5
- - Recreating Ancient Greek Perfume
