Whale Gut to Chanel No. 5: The Dark History of Perfume
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Whale gut on your neck. Poison in your gloves. Plague doctors in beaked masks. The history of perfume has almost nothing to do with smelling nice. This is the hidden history of perfume — from a 4,000-year-old perfume factory in Cyprus and Tapputi, the world's first recorded chemist, to Egyptian kyphi, Roman pulse points, Islamic distillation, Grasse leather gloves, synthetic chemistry, and Chanel No. 5. You'll learn how al-Kindi and Avicenna perfected distillation, why Louis XIV ran la cour parfumée, how Catherine de' Medici linked scent to poison, how William Henry Perkin created synthetics, and the story of Chanel No 5 and how its namesake tried to steal it with help from the Nazis. It wasn't vanity. It was protection. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro: Whale Gut & The Secret at the Heart of Luxury 01:04 - Ancient Origins of Perfume 02:00 - Tapputi: The World's First Chemist Was a Woman 03:16 - From Sacred Rituals to Roman Luxury 04:37 - The Islamic Golden Age: Distillation & Exotic Scent
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