I'm surprised anything like this has survived this long!
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I wonder how it smell back then
Now pay attention to what I tell you. Just like a musical chord, a perfume chord contains four essences, or notes, carefully selected for their harmonic affinity. Each perfume contains three chords: the head, the heart and the base, necessitating 12 notes in all.
The head chord contains the first impression, lasting a few minutes before giving way to the heart chord, the theme of the perfume, lasting several hours. Finally, the base chord, the trail of the perfume lasting several days.
Mind you, the Egyptians believed that one can only create a truly original perfume by adding an extra note, one final essence that will ring out and dominate the others.
Legend had it that an amphora was once found in a pharaoh's tomb, and when it was opened, a perfume was released, after all those thousands of years, a perfume of such subtle beauty, and yet such power, that for one single moment every person on earth believed they were in paradise. 12 essences could be identified, but the 13th, the vital one, could never be determined.
You are not murdering women to make perfumes are you?
It has to be done.
My first thought too. I learned everything I know about perfume from that movie. Also most amazing ending to a movie ever
It’s also a book, and a good one.
It's a very strange movie. One of my favorites.
I really want this story to be true.
This guy perfumes
This sounds like something from Tom Robbins. Was it Jitterbug Perfume?
Perfume: Story of a Murderer.
That's basically a dispenser, right? It looks like you press down the head and perfume comes out the beak. That's very cool.
Actually, you snap off the tail - it's a single use item!
Oh, what a gorgeous waste that is.
And we'll never know what the perfumes smell like because they'll never be broken
I’m not so sure. You could probably use spectroscopy to figure out what is in there now and then work out what form would have been in way back then.
I'd definitely be curious to know
It feels wasteful and luxurious, but glass is more or less indefinitely recyclable.
It’s not actually perfume, it’s oils. Perfume wouldn’t be around until the modern age.
Those Romans sure had style
I’m waiting for the Dateline NBC episode where mild mannered housewife Andronitas stabs her husband with one of these.
"Caw!" by Smellystankenes