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This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the 14th century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Chemical Industries in India by H. E. Watson Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Volume 18, Issue 7, Year 1926, Pages 748 - 752. Buchanan's account of the manufacture of rose-water and other perfumes at Patna in A.D. 1811 and its bearing on the history of Indian perfumery industry, by P. K. Gode , New Indian Antiquary 7, 181–185; also in: SICH ...
List of scents / brands showing name, celebrity, occupation, label, production period, notes and references Scent / brand Celebrity Occupation(s) Label Prod. period Notes Ref. Salvador Dalí fragrance line Salvador Dalí: Artist Francis Kurkdjian, Les Parfums Salvador Dali, and more 1983–present 75+ fragrances inspired by Dalí's work Born ...
The perfume references are part of a larger text called Brihat-Samhita written by Varāhamihira, an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer living in the city of Ujjain. He was one of the ‘nine jewels’ in the court of Vikramaditya. The perfume portion mainly deals with the manufacture of perfumes to benefit ‘royal personages’.
Kannauj Perfume is listed as item 157 of the GI Act 1999, which was passed by the Government of India. [2] Kannauj's perfume sector has a storied history. Due to the role of perfume production in Kannauj, the city is known as "the perfume capital of India". Additionally, one writer said that "Kannauj is to India what Grasse is to France".
Perfume ( UK: / ˈpɜːfjuːm /, US: / pərˈfjuːm /; French: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. [ 1]
Bottles of eau de toilette. Eau de toilette ( French: [o d (ə) twalɛt], meaning "grooming water") [ n 1] is a lightly scented perfume. [ 2] It is also referred to as aromatic waters and has a high alcohol content. [ 3] It is usually applied directly to the skin after bathing or shaving. [ 4] It is traditionally composed of alcohol and various ...
This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known Bollywood, based in Mumbai ordered by year and decade of release. Although "Bollywood" films are generally listed under the Hindi language, most are in Hindustani and many in Urdu as well as Hindi, with partial Bhojpuri, Punjabi and occasionally other languages.