The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants

PREFACE

SECTION I.

INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY.

Perfumes in use from the Earliest Periods--Origin lost in the Depth of its Antiquity--Possibly derived from Religious Observances--Incense or Frankincense burned in Honor of the Divinities--Early Christians put to Death for refusing to offer Incense to Idols--Use of perfumes by the Greeks and Romans--Pliny and Seneca observe t...