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Gold Christmas Room Perfume

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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.
Gold has been known and highly valued since prehistoric times. It may have been the first metal used by humans and was valued for ornamentation and rituals. Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as 2600 BC describe gold and it is also mentioned several times in the Old Testament. Gold is included with the gifts of the magi in the first chapters of Matthew in the New Testament The south-east corner of the Black Sea was famed for its gold. Exploitation is said to date from the time of Midas, and gold was important in the establishment of what is probably the world's earliest coinage in Lydia between 643 and 630 BC.
The Mali Empire in Africa was famed throughout the old world for its large amounts of gold. Mansa Musa, ruler of the empire (1312 - 1337) became famous throughout the old world for his great hajj to Mecca in 1324. On the way to Mecca, when he passed through Cairo in July of 1324, he was reportedly accompanied by a caravan that included thousands of people and nearly a hundred camels, giving away so much gold that it took over a decade for the economy across North Africa to recover, due to the rapid inflation that it initiated.
Although the price of some platinum group metals can be much higher, gold has long been considered the most desirable of precious metals, and its value has been used as the standard for many currencies (known as the gold standard) in history. Gold has been used as a symbol for purity, value, royalty, and particularly roles that combine these properties.
The fragrance of Gold is designed to capture all its ancient history and its power and richness. The scent is dominant and strong with undertones of rich perfume.

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May 2008