[blam]

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[leda]

allergy alert ping, babe :)

[Random Access]

4,000 years of helping men make amneds for their screwups.

[Night Hides Not]

Perfumes are displayed in alabaster vials found in 2003 and are made of olive oil, pine, coriander, laurel, bergamot, parsley and bitter almonds, ANSA said.

"bitter almonds"? Eau de Hillary?

[Candor7]

Being olfactorily fixated like a blue tick hound, I have only the greatest respect for the scents of the gods.

A BIG Snarfffffff to the ancient art of perfumery. A sniff is as good as break.

I often wonder why Freud settled on anal and oral fixation stereotypes. Olfactory fixation is much more interesting, as any dog will tell you.

And many perfume technicians do earn their living by sniff alone, as do many wine and whiskey blenders.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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[LasVegasMac]

the world's oldest known perfume factory.

Channel No. 1

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

A perfume with the scent of parsley.....ugh. (Parsley is for seasoning food, not humans).

[martin_fierro]

Timeless.

With a distinctive odeur.

Sometimes even tasteful.

[Enchante]

Even after 4000 years these fragrances must smell better than Helen Thomas......

[Verloona Ti]

If someone would recreate this fragrance, especially in a replica of the original vial , I'd buy it, if only for the novelty value. I hope some capitalist sees the opportunity.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. I'm glad this story was scent.

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[apro]

"The scents are named after the Greek goddesses Aphrodite, Hera, Athena and Artemis."

[Ditter]

Of course perfume was big back then they didn’t have deodorant yet. I always wondered how people could stand each other before regular bathing and deodorant was invented, and washing machines and dryers and clean clothes every day. They must have reeked!