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The History of Perfume
Perfume can mean so many things. It's a nebulous vehicle for all sorts of meanings, rituals and ways that we might want too unite with each other. The word perfumes coming from the latin perfumare, which means through the smoke. Perfume today in the sense of alcoholic perfumes that you might find in the duty free in an airport or in a department store? I think that to day, we think of fragrance as a beauty product. Lizzie, what do we know about the early beginnings of perfume? We can go as far back as four thousand years.