The Brutal History Of Perfume
A treatise on the fateful development of synthetic scents
Chapter 1. Rovesti
This is a retrospective tour to identify junctures in the engineering of anti-Life machineries — the chemical makeover — let’s have a look.
“Humanity has never been very pleased with how life goes, has never been accepting of how lives end. We offer the following tutorial chronicling the history of perfume in order to afford a good view of the ensuing drama,” Saffron provides as introduction, adding, “the nature of olfactive perception is to land our focused attention at a salon to come,” which is a separate question, that she’s right to mention, as it bears on this topic.
The origin of perfumery with concentrated fragrant principles can be traced, thanks to Rovesti’s discovery of an alembic-style distillation vessel, to the area covering part of present Pakistan roughly five thousand years ago, and blah blah … how many times have you heard this flat recital? achh, tedious.
“Alembic from the Spanish alambico from the Arabic al inbiq from the Greek ambix, which means vessel.”
Really, should we care precisely when or how or where the art and science of perfumery originated? whether it was the ancient Chinese or early Egyptians cooking up oily odoraments…
