A long time ago, people found create a nice smell. They put nice-smelling wood or leaves into a fire. A nice smell come through the smoke. that is how we got the word perfume. In Latin, per menns through, and fumus means smoke.
In ancient times, people used a lot of perfume. The Greeks uesd different perfume for different parts of the body. Everybody used perfume , both men and women. when guest came for aspecial dinner, the host gave them more perfume to put on themselves. The Romans did the same as the Greeks. But they did not just perfume themslves once a day. They perfume themselves three times a day Thay also perfumed their dogs and horses. They perfumed their flags and things around the house such as drapes and cushoins. perfume was as important as food.
Today, perfume is not natural as it was in the past . Perfume is also not simple to make. A perfume expert must tell the difference among nineteen thousand differrent smells. Most of these smells are from chemical, thet are not from real flowers. For a very good perfume today, the expert mixes more than a hondred ingradients.