Title: Perfume | Encyclopedia.com
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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History
Raw Materials
The Manufacturing
Process
Collection
Extraction
Blending
Aging
Quality Control
The Future
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Content: Aromatic jewelry designed by master craftsmen was in great demand. In fact, royalty had their own private jewelers and perfumers to cater to their every whim. Chatelaines, rings, earrings, belts, and bracelets were considered indispensable. Wealthy men, women, and children all wore decorative aromatic accessories. Courting Perfume
In 1533, when Catherine de Medici left Italy to marry Henry II, she took all of her personal perfumes and perfumers with her. It was not uncommon for royalty and wealthy citizens to employ their own perfumers and jewelers who were responsible for creating exquisite one-ofa-kind containers for each perfume. The marriage of Marie Antoinette to the future king of France, Louis XVI, united two intense devotees of perfume. Both reveled in environments heavy with scent. But it was Louis XIV who became known as "The Perfumed King" in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His retinue of perfumers created different scents for him and his court to wear morning, noon, and night.