Love is in the Air

 

As Valentine’s Day approaches, love may be in the air but so are the scents of a thousand perfumes as the fashion houses and perfumers ramp up their marketing efforts.

Today’s perfume industry is highly lucrative but did you know that the earliest recorded perfumer was also the world's first chemist: a Mesopotamian woman named Tapputi who lived over 4,000 years ago?

No, I didn’t know that either until I stumbled upon this article on the brilliantly informative Science: So What? website from Directgov.