The fragrance in ancient Egypt

Perfume was in the center of aesthetics and treatment for men and women in ancient Egypt, although the techniques are used for most not registered the historians to the Greek and Roman literature writers and the help of colors and objects to determine the production moods and the use of fragrance in this fascinating time.

The fact that the fragrance was seen as a form of art in ancient Egypt The tradesman was as an artist, and the profession is to women and men. The process of drawing up the collection of scents can relief’s on the walls of the tombs of Petosiris. These show that the smell had an inspector, workers and the extraction, and a professional tester, the testing done by the smell.

The relief’s also the image detail two methods will be extracted. The first process has shown an old procedure for obtaining mechanical, is comparable with the production of wine. This required a large bag and two employees who were used as a press release. The second was a form of chemical production with the help of heat and the insertion into alcohol. The processes are the first versions of the modern techniques for extracting scent, are not really progressed in terms of available hardware and synthetic ingredients.

The show also paid relief’s red berries in a container in which the details of the nature of the products used to the different scents. The ingredients are used in the fragrance of the rule of plant origin such as henna and cinnamon. The former natural philosopher Pliny the Elder floral folders as the iris, bit, by shrubs and other aromatic tar almonds and read in its natural history as much. The myrrh is a resin wood was used. Animal fats such as musk are also considered in certain perfumes. Some Egyptian recipes, there are, but they are difficult to reproduce.

But the Egyptians had mostly exotic flavors, better educated and with the inclusion of the essences, they have also imported as aromatic Ladanum Arabia and East Africa, galbanum of Persia, and incense coveted because of experiments, to develop, in the Egyptian climate. The fact that the ingredients have been imported, even in ancient times, shows the importance of fragrance. The varieties were too expensive and initially only for the use of the gods, or only on exports.

Relief’s of excavations show that since ancient times the mixture and the amount of fragrance is also important that the duration of the odor. The fragrance is document main export products in ancient times with different countries are fighting for the highest quality. Susinum was a favorite, and the kind of competitive situation shows that in ancient times, a certain uniformity and standard expected. Pliny the Elder Egyptian describes a fragrance, its smell after 8 years, botanists and Greek, Dioscorides, Egypt has decided that the fragrance is much higher than that of other civilizations.

Egyptians fragrances are usually the name of the city on the production or the main component the storage in glass or stone vessels with the coveted alabaster. The decoration is often decorated and bejeweled, with packaging to the modern requirements of functionality and attractiveness. Perfume was burned, as the incense, whose name in the documents from the reign of Thutmose III, which the various varieties such as incense green and white. Perfume was for aesthetic reasons, in the form of liquid oil based infusions, or wax and fat content for the creams and the salvos. That is to think there was also a target medicines acknowledged.

Fragrance has served mainly to the elite of classes until the age of gold. It was built by the kings who were, it seems the descent of God, which we believed that the gods promoted fragrance. High officials have been anointed perfume, when they were appointed in the office, to win the favor of the gods.

Incense is used to the smell of animal victims during the ceremonies. Trees were as pharmaceuticals, that the scent was thought to the demons and the favor of the gods. Perfume was also an important part of the death and the burial rites. The corporation has, over fragrant mummification that it believed the soul, the gods, and the fragrance, where the demons. Interestingly, 3300 years after the death of Tutankhamun, odour detected, could be in his grave.