Gemstone perfume bottle

In ancient Mesopotamia, the use of spices was quite popular. In 3000 B.C., in order to make it easier to use balms and essential oils, people made special stone or gold containers for preservation. In 1600 B.C., colored glass came on the market, which we call Colored glaze. Since then, perfume bottles have turned a new page. Today, when we enter the world of fragrance, are we first attracted by the bottles designed or are you tempted by the smell of perfume?

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The Islamic world created essential oils, perfumes and perfume bottles, is a famous place for fragrance. Perfume originated from rose water. This kind of rose water is mainly sprinkled indoors or sprayed on clothes. From the 10th to the 15th century, this kind of unique rosewater sprinkling bottle with an elongated neck and an onion-shaped belly became the main feature of rose water containers.

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Islamic people discovered that the essential oil extracted from the rose flowers that bloomed all year round in the Iranian plateau and Western Asia could be dissolved in water in small amounts, so they put a large number of petals into purified water and filtered the very small amount of dissolved essential oil. , one liter of rose water requires hundreds of kilograms of petals to obtain.

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Western Asia has been a famous producer of spices since the ancient Babylonian era. In addition to rose water, rose oil, saffron oil, fennel oil, pineapple oil, corn oil and other essential oils such as vanilla and frankincense are also prepared. At that time, chemical technologies such as evaporation, distillation, dissolution, crystallization, and filtration often made breakthroughs. Therefore, the techniques for extracting spices also changed from distillation to cold water to alcohol extraction of aroma. This method was later spread to Europe to promote led to the booming development of the perfume industry.

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It is recorded in the Song Dynasty's Dashi Biography: In the first year of Yongxi's reign (AD 984), Chinese people came to offer flower brocades with scented tea, Yue Nuo, neem incense, white borneol, white sugar, rose water, and glassware. In the fourth year of Chunhua (AD 993), it was recorded that the minister Ximifan brought in fifty ivory plants, one thousand eight hundred catties of frankincense, seven hundred catties of iron, one section of red silk Jibei, four sections of five-color assorted flower brocade, and two sections of white Yue Nuo. Duan, Du Daddy has a glass vase, an unknown one, and a hundred bottles of rose water. The imperial edict granted him the imperial edict, brocade robes, silverware, bundles of silk, etc. ?In response to the request. In the first year of the reign of Dao, the lord of his country, Puaduoli and Pu Ximi, came to offer a hundred taels of white borneol, twenty small glazed bottles of eye drops, and three glazed white sugars. Urn, six glazed bottles each of Millennium Date and Schisandra chinensis, one glazed bottle of Boshang peach, twenty glazed bottles of rose water...

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It can be seen that in the increasingly developing trade with Iran at that time, rose water and glass bottles (perfume bottles) had become indispensable imported goods. Of course, not only in China, this fragrant magical water is coveted by nobles throughout Europe. Therefore, when things come together in ancient and modern times, it is a great gift to give perfume and glass bottles.

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Recently, a perfumer friend asked me to try several formulas of perfumes. One is a mixture of chemical fragrances, and the other is a mixture of natural fragrances. The constant cross-comparison feels that chemical fragrances are bright and direct, while natural fragrances are soft and elegant, extend richer scent. Then, friend insisted on giving me a special fragrance. The bottle was also mixed with gold and fresh flower petals. The perfume was called "Many Peach Blossoms", wish me being lucky in love!