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Coconut Room Perfume

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Coconut is a very familiar scent and an all time favourite. The image on the label is that of the open fruit with its white flesh.
Room Sprays are a concentrated blend of fragrance presented in a simple glass bottle with a colourful label. Choose from a wide range of colours and fragrances to co-ordinate with any style of décor.
The history of perfume dates from antiquity. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and the Arabs. Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrance was incense based. The oldest perfumery was discovered on the island of Cyprus. Knowledge of perfumery came to Europe as early as the 14th century partially due to Arabic influences and knowledge. But it was the Hungarians who ultimately introduced the first modern perfume. The art of perfumery prospered in Renaissance Italy, and in the 16th century, Italian refinements were taken to France.
During the Renaissance period, perfumes were used primarily by royalty and the wealthy to mask body odours resulting from the sanitary practices of the day. Perfume came into its own when Louis XV came to the throne in the 18th century. His court was called "le cour parfumee" (the perfumed court). Madame de Pompadour ordered generous supplies of perfume, and King Louis demanded a different fragrance for his apartment every day.
Perfume reached its peak in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I. All public places were scented during Queen Elizabeth's rule, as she could not tolerate bad smells. As with industry and the arts, perfume was to undergo profound change in the 19th century. During the 1960’s the use of incense and perfumes to fragrance a room began to increase. The development of alternative therapies and the use of oils, herbs etc to enhance treatments or to use in conjunction with massage increased people’s awareness of how scent affects their emotions and led to an increase in the purchase of scents to be used around the home.
Fossil records from New Zealand indicate that small, coconut-like plants grew there as long as 15 million years ago. Even older fossils have been uncovered in Rajasthan, TamilNadu, Kerala and Maharashtra, India. Regardless of its origin, the coconut has spread across much of the tropics, probably aided in many cases by sea-faring peoples. The fruit is light and buoyant and presumably it spread significant distances by marine currents. Coconuts are extensively used in Hindu religious rites. Coconuts are usually offered to the gods, and a coconut is smashed on the ground or on some object as part of an initiation or inauguration of building projects, ships, etc.; this act signifies a sacrifice of ego, the idea that wealth stems from divinity, and the idea that, if due credit is not given, bad karma is taken on. In Hindu mythology it is referred to as Kalpavruksha.

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May 2008