香水的历史

The history of perfume began in antiquity.香水的历史始于古代。 The word perfume used today to describe scented mixtures, derives from the Latin "per fumus", meaning through smoke.如今，香水一词用于描述有气味的混合物，源自拉丁语“ per fumus”，即烟。 Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and the Arabs.香水，或制作香水的艺术，始于古埃及，但后来由罗马人和阿拉伯人发展并进一步完善。 Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrances are incense based.尽管东亚也存在香水和香水，但其许多香水都是基于香的。 The basic ingredients and methods of making perfumes are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia.香水的基本成分和制造方法由老普林尼（Pliny the Elder）在他的《自然历史》中描述。
The world's first recorded chemist is a person named lafaunda , a perfume maker who was mentioned in a Cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in MesopotamiaTo date, the oldest perfumery was discovered on the island of Cyprus.世界上第一个记录的化学家是一个名叫拉斐达（lafaunda）的香水制造商，他在美索不达米亚的公元前2004千年的楔形文字平板电脑中被提及。迄今为止，最古老的香水是在塞浦路斯岛上发现的。 Excavations in 5-4,000 under the initiative of an Italian archaeological team unearthed evidence of an enormous factory that existed 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.在意大利考古团队的倡议下，XNUMX-XNUMX年的发掘工作发掘出证据，表明在XNUMX年前的青铜时代存在着一家巨大的工厂。 This covered an estimated surface area of over XNUMXm?估计覆盖面积超过XNUMXm？ indicating that perfume manufacturing was on an industrial scale.表明香水制造业已达到工业规模。 The news of this discovery was reported extensively through the world press and many artifacts are already on display in Rome这一发现的消息已被世界新闻界广泛报道，许多文物已经在罗马展出。