Perfume
In antiquity, perfume was already associated with feelings and it was possible to establish it since with the importance in human and social relations. Throughout time, their role were changing. It was first used in sacred rituals to the gods, and later, we are able to see Bible passages that describe the perfumes, oils and ointments. After centuries, with the advent of Christianity, the perfume has fallen into disuse in Europe, unlike in the Arabian, where its use has not been suppressed and it kept growing. Then we can highlight the importance of European French more precisely, to the fabrication and use of perfume.
Over the years, the role of the perfume was being modified and brought into different contexts for their use. Currently, there are industrialization and large-scale production, making it became something common and affordable, unlike at its origin, which was considered a great wealth without price.
Thus, the aim is to observe and present the similarities and distinctions of perfume in its creation and in present days.
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Perfume was created in about 3000 BC, along with the Egyptian civilization. Its name shows the real function, perfume through the smoke.
The Egyptians were polytheists and honored the gods in various kinds of rituals, the perfume played a major role in them. The incense and scent, were seen as valuable and essential things. Inside the temple there were laboratories that specialized in the preparation of perfumes and ointments. The altars of the rituals were purified by burning incense, woods and resins; sacred statues were glorified with scented oils. Civilization believed that prayers and invocations to the gods arrived faster if they were laden with aromatic smoke.
The Egyptians believed that with the scent of the dead their soul could be put in the ritual of mummification were used myrrh, oak moss, pine resin and other ingredients to send the bodies to eternity. In personal