Category: Perfuming
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“I shall be anointed with first-class oil and clothed in top linen, and I shall sit on that which makes Maat live, with my back to the back of those gods at the sky’s north—the Imperishable Stars, and I shall not perish; the unpassing ones, and I shall not pass; the unwaning ones, and I…
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Mesopotamian Maceration
“I anoint myself everyday with oil, burn perfumes and use cosmetics that make me worthier of worshipping thee.” Nebechudnezzar II, in supplication to Marduk, David Pybus and Charles Sell, The Chemistry of Fragrances, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999 Very early in Mesopotamia some aromatics were harvested from within the region while others were imported…