In ancient Mesopotamia, the Sumerians seem to be the first in history to create a perfume. In fact, there are many references to perfumery in their literature. Authentic perfume bottles in a shop’s shelves of Spice Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey.
However, it was the Egyptians who, in ancient Egypt, encouraged this industry, as well as cosmetics. The priests were in charge of its elaboration, in the laboratories they had to create also the different ointments that they used in their ceremonies: every day they anointed the statuette of God with these elaborations, as well as to the same Pharaoh when he went to the processions.
Around 539 BC, the Persians went a step further and macerated flowers in oil, which they then pressed. It is even said that different exotic flowers were brought from India and Arabia to create perfumes in Babylon. Around 334 BC, perfumes arrived in Greece after the conquest of Alexander the Great, where they were considered to be of divine origin and even believed that the women who made them had powers.
With the Greeks came ceramic bottles to hold the fragrances. And from here, through the Mediterranean, they reached other latitudes such as the Near East, Spain and Rome, where the first perfumers settled.
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