Egyptian hieroglyphics show that Ancient Egyptians were making perfume. This is fascinating, as the Egyptian culture is about 5000 years old. The perfume culture thus is older than the perfume history of India and far older than the history of European perfumery. Egyptian priests were a sort of early perfumers, they used aromatic resins to put …
The history of perfume in Grasse, France, is quite interesting. Grasse, a picturesque town nestled in the French Riviera not far away from Cannes, has long been hailed as the world’s perfume capital, where the production of fragrances in the old days was elevated to an exquisite form of craftsmanship. The town’s rich history in …
India has a rich and fascinating history of perfumery that dates back thousands of years. Perfume and fragrance have been an important part of Indian culture, used for both religious and secular purposes. Compared with the perfume history of Europe, India has a much older and deeper history to tell. Kannauj, located in the northern …