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Headings: Perfume
Perfume
PERFUME
Hand in Glove
Scents of Royalty
Courting Perfume
Street Scents and Scenes
Designers and Grand Dames
Peacetime Scent-Sations
Hints of Globalization
Designing a Fragrant Future
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Background
History
Raw Materials
The Manufacturing
Process
Collection
Extraction
Blending
Aging
Quality Control
The Future
Where To Learn More
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Content: Over-crowding, lack of sanitation, and pollution made life unbearable. Fears of unknown diseases lurking in the water kept people from bathing. Perfumes emerged as the panacea for the great-unwashed populace. Crudely made perfumes and colognes could be bought on the street by roving self-appointed perfumers who hawked their fragrant wares from garments which looked like cook's aprons. Scent bottles filled the many pockets. The French Revolution put a stop to royalty's fragrant revelries and perfume didn't regain its popularity until the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon became emperor. There was no limit to his fragrance indulgences. He virtually bathed in eau de cologne, and never went into battle without a full supply of his favorites. His wife, Josephine, loved roses and musk, and she surrounded herself with them night and day. But, when Napoleon left her for Marie Louise, Josephine filled the rooms of Malmaison with the overpowering scent of musk, which she knew Napoleon disliked intensely.