What is a fragrance or perfume?
• Fragrance is the modern term for perfume. The word perfume comes from the ancient language Latin. Par fumum, meaning “by smoke”. Perfume is known to have been used by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans. The way they used perfume was by sprinkling crystals of myrrh, incense, camphor and other natural plant and resin materials over hot coals to emit a pleasant aroma or perfume into their living space. Later, when the extraction of essential oils from these materials was discovered, they began using them in their baths and body oils.
