The world's first recorded chemist is considered to be a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.[1]
The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th century a book on perfumes which he named âBook of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillationsâ. It contained more than hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, aromatic waters and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described one hundred and Discount Perfume seven methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even the perfume making equipment, like the alembic, still bears its Arabic name[4].
