Tuesday, March 04, 2008

I Think I Just Died..

Haha! For the past few days, I've been reading this someone's comment from someone to someone and vice versa. What a nice swap. The thing is, I think I just died the first time I've read them. WO-AH! And then, I did some further searching, and guess what?! Haha! Natunaw ako! Awwwwshucks! Tangina. One word. Nakakakilig! :-P


Anyway, that one may be too much showcasing of emotions. Or rather sensationalizing it. Nya ha. Digression. I've just read from a news article the recent manufacture if this fragrance that MAY be the one exactly used by the Cleopatra. They've called it, Nenufar, apparently. Cleopatra's Sacred Scent!



Here's a short description for this scent:

"..Head spacing the substances found (stealing their aromas through scientific instrumentation) as with Nenúfar, the flower's perfume was diffused into a polymer filter with the air around it and then reconstructed as the aroma of the Blue Lotus, a bloom sacred to all Pharaohs. The flower's chemistry contained a hallucinogen, myristicin. Egyptians got high steeping the petals in wine and drinking the wine. (The poem 'The Land of the Lotos Eaters' depicts this). The chemistry of the flower's perfume is kept intact with the humble nutmeg spice, which contains myristicin..."

The latter picture is Ankh, another perfume. The one purportedly used by King Tut. While the middle one is named Pyxis.

Here's another article:

Three perfumes Pyxis, Nenúfar and Ankh, debuted recently at the British Museum in the context of an exhibition on Tuthankamen. The whole collection currently comprises Nenúfar, "Cleopatra's sacred scent", Ankh, "Tuthankamen's aroma of intrigue", and Pyxis "The lost perfume of Pompeii".

Oh gad. The Aroma of the Pharaohs. The Scents of Time as they are touted.


posted by Randyh @ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Comments: 0