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alchemy that turns whale vomit and beaver glands into things you spray on dates
means A perfumery is a place where perfumes are made or sold — or the craft and art of making them.
from From French parfumerie, built on parfum ("perfume"), which traces back to the Latin per fumum — literally "through smoke," recalling the ancient practice of burning incense and aromatic resins so their scent rose with the smoke. The -ery ending (as in bakery, brewery) marks the place or trade where the thing is made. So buried in the word is the oldest idea of fragrance: not something sprayed, but something smoked into the air.
- ambergris
- prized scent base from sperm whale intestinal waste
- castoreum
- vanilla-like flavor harvested from beaver rear glands
- nose careers
- master perfumers are literally called noses
- oldest known
- 4,000-year-old perfume factory found in Cyprus
- molecule count
- a single fragrance can blend hundreds of ingredients