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Fundamentals Of Fragrance Case Study

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Valentina Cho
COSM 2350
Fundamentals of Fragrance Assignment #1

1. What is the dime sized patch in the upper air passages of the nose that give us our sense of smell?
A dime-size patch of olfactory membrane in each of the upper air passages of the nose contains the nerve endings that give us our sense of smell.

2. Where in the brain is the sense of smell first processed?
The sense of smell, however, is first processed in the limbic lobe, one of the oldest parts of the brain and the seat of sexual and emotional impulses.

3. Who pronounced smell the most unimportant of all the senses? Immanuel Kant pronounced smell the most unimportant of the senses and unworthy of cultivation.

4. Umeda hunters were reported to sleep …show more content…

Wall paintings from where revealed that the perfumers were indeed women, and they were as likely to serve the court as the temple.
The Jerusalem wall paintings reveal that the perfumers were indeed women, and that they were as likely to serve the court as the temple.

9. The emperor Nero is reported to have had Lake Lucina covered in what during a feast, he is also said to have slept in them.
The emperor Nero is reported to have had Lake Lucina covered in rose petals when he threw a feast there, and he was said to sleep on a bed of petals.

10. What is the ancient art that undertook to convert raw matter, through a series of transformations, into a perfect and purified form?
But perfume as we know it could not have taken shape without alchemy, the ancient art that undertook to convert raw matter, through a series of transformations, into a perfect and purified form.

11. Though it has deep roots in China, India and Egypt, alchemy came into its own and flourished well into the 17th century where?
Often referred to as the "divine" or "sacred" art, alchemy has complex and deep roots that reach back to ancient China, India, and Egypt, but it came into its own in medieval Europe and flourished well into the seventeenth century.

12. Distillation was of enormous importance not only in the evolution of perfumery but of what else?
And indeed the alchemists deserve credit for refining the process of distillation, which was of enormous importance to the

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