Title: How perfume is made - material, manufacture, making, history, used, parts, industry, History, Raw Materials
Headings: 
Perfume
Background
History
Raw Materials
The Manufacturing
Process
Collection
Extraction
Blending
Aging
Quality Control
The Future
Where To Learn More
Periodicals
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Content: In different variations, this synthetic compound gives off the  scents of sweet pea, lily of the valley, narcissus, and hyacinth. Just as the art of perfumery progressed through the centuries, so did the  art of the perfume bottle. Perfume bottles were often as elaborate and  exotic as the oils they contained. The earliest specimens date back to  about 1000 B.C. In ancient Egypt, newly invented glass bottles were made largely to hold  perfumes. The crafting of perfume bottles spread into Europe and reached  its peak in Venice in the 18th century, when glass containers assumed the  shape of small animals or had pastoral scenes painted on them. Today  perfume bottles are designed by the manufacturer to reflect the character  of the fragrance inside, whether light and flowery or dark and musky. Raw Materials
Natural ingredients—flowers, grasses, spices, fruit, wood, roots,  resins, balsams, leaves, gums, and animal secretions—as well as  resources like alcohol, petrochemicals, coal, and coal tars are used in  the manufacture of perfumes. Some plants, such as lily of the valley, do  not produce oils naturally. In fact, only about 2,000 of the 250,000 known  flowering plant species contain these essential oils. Therefore, synthetic  chemicals must be used to re-create the smells of non-oily substances.