who invented perfumes?

Answer 1

Perfume is thousands of years old - the word "perfume" comes from the Latin per fume "through smoke". One of the oldest uses of perfumes comes form the burning of incense and aromatic herbs used in religious services, often the aromatic gums, frankincense and myrrh, gathered from trees. The Egyptians were the first to incorporate perfume into their culture followed by the ancient Chinese, Hindus, Israelites, Carthaginians, Arabs, Greeks, and Romans. The earliest use of perfume bottles is Egyptian and dates to around 1000 BC. The Egyptians invented glass and perfume bottles were one of the first common uses for glass.

Answer 2

The word perfume used today derives from the Latin "per fume", meaning through smoke. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and the Arabs. Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrances are incense based.

The world's first chemist is considered to be a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.[7]

Recently, archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the world's oldest perfumes in Pyrgos, Cyprus. The perfumes date back more than 4,000 years. The perfumes where discovered in an ancient perfumery factory. At least 60 distilling stills, mixing bowls, funnels and perfume bottles were found in the 43,000 square foot factory.[8] In ancient times people used herbs and spices, like almond, coriander, myrtle, conifer resin, bergamot, but not flowers.[9]

Answer 3

I do not know the name of the actual individual who did, maybe that is lost to history, but in the Dark Ages the Church preached that bathing was sin, so people did not bathe for months at a time. Obviously, the stench would have been unbearable. So perfumes were concocted to mask the smell. Think of how horrible that would have been!!! The stench of months of sweat and dirt and filth combined with overpowering sweet scent. It is a miracle the human race managed to reproduce through those times. I could not have even gotten close to another human being that filthy and stinking.

Answer 4

Flowers, for attracting insects.
If you mean "human", then probably some cro-magnon woman noticed that when she rolled in flowers, she smelled like flowers, which she thought was a bit nicer than the rancide animal fat, sweat and feces aroma she usually evinced.
Actually crafting scents probably started in Ancient Egypt, which is one of the first places where there was a liesure class that had the time to worry about such things as hygiene.

Answer 5

yeah egyptians, people used to not shower but once a year and perfume was used as deoderent, not so much just good smell on top of clean skin. it was a cover up.

Answer 6

No definite answer since it has been around for such a long time. Even Jesus was given perfume.

Answer 7

It all started when the first woman was sprayed by a skunk, the rest is history.

Answer 8

guy that got sick of smelling his stinky wife.. back in the day when they wore nine layers of pantoloons and took showers once a week in the same water they potty in!....

Answer 9

people who used to smell bad

Answer 10

egyptians