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Know your 'falcon de parfum'

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  T he title above is a combination of English and French and it roughly translates to " Know your bottle of perfume " in English. Now as you have been familiarized with the heading so by now you might have already known what the topic is all about which I am going to discuss and yes it is " PERFUMES !!". The term perfume is derived from the Latin word  'perfumare' meaning " to smoke through ". The art of making perfumes is known as perfumery . The art of making perfumes has been known to the mankind since ages to be exact 2nd millenium BC that roughly estimates to 3000-4000 years ago.During that age, perfume was not the kind of perfume we are familiarized with today, it consisted of herbs,spices,aromatic oils and the most important is flowers. They mixed these components together and kept it for a long duration of time and filtered the liquid part which was then finally called the perfume during those days. These days the manufacturing of perfu...