Making of Perfumes with Fruits

Perfumes have a long history. In bible terms perfumes scented homes, cloth and bodies of any who could afford them. The ingredient for perfumes includes aloes balsamic oil, cinnamon, and other spices proverb 7: 17 song of Solomon 4. 10:14

Essences extracted from vegetable are still fundamentals perfumery. We have come to calabria, the southernmost region of the Italian peninsula, to see where one such ingredient is produce. You may not know the bergamot by name. yet the aroma of this food is said to be found in approximately one third of woman's perfumes on the market and half of men's colognes. Allow us to introduce the bergamot to you

The bergamot is evergreen citrus. It is flowers appear in spring and smooth skinned yellow fruit about the sizes of an orange ripen in the late autumn of early writer. Many experts consider the bergamot to be a hybrid. And its origin sometimes is a mystery. No where do bergamot tree grow wild non can be grow from seed. Reproduce them, cultivator have to graft shoot of existing tree into plant of similar spices such as the lime of the sour orange .

For perfumes bergamot fruit have unique quality. One book on the subject explains that the essence extracted from them has rare ability "to amalgamated and fix different aromas, bleeding them into a different bouquets and to confer a note of special freshness on each composition that includes it."*

CULTIVATION IN CALABRIA

Historic sources indicate that bergamots in Calabria lest as early as the beginning at the 18th century and that local occasionally sold the essence to passing travelers. Commercial cultivation however was tied to the success of cologne . in 1704 Gina Paolo famines, an Italian emigrant to Germany produce a toilet water that he called Aqua admirabilis,or "admirable water " its main ingredient is bergamot essence the perfumes come to be known as eau de cologne, "cologne water" or simply cologne, after the city in which it was produce