ONE CANNOT BE WELLDRESSED sans scent. You can try, but you will fail, and your life will be the smaller and the sorrier for it. The ancients knew this. From the moment we first have signs of civilisation we find the presence of perfume: in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. If Cleopatra fragranced her barge sails, one can only imagine the aroma her flesh exuded.
How the mighty are fallen. For the Egyptians, perfume