Madame de Pompadour ordered generous supplies of perfume, and King Louis demanded a different fragrance for his apartment everyday.
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By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.
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The world's first recorded chemist is a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a Cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
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