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Restored the spirits of the pharaohs

07.01.2003

French perfumers, working in collaboration with archaeologists and historians, managed to restore the Kifi perfume used by the Egyptian pharaohs.

To do this, the specialists of the company "Loreal" had to use bottles with dried up remains of incense stored in museums, decoding of ancient Egyptian documents, as well as the works of Plutarch and other scientists of antiquity. The recipes varied: some used only 10 ingredients, others up to 50. Ingredients include pistachios, mint, frankincense, cinnamon, myrrh, juniper, and hemp.

The latter circumstance makes it impossible to produce and distribute "Kifi" - ancient Egyptian perfumes in our time would be equated with drugs. By the way, Plutarch mentions that from the smell of "Kifi" a person falls asleep and sees pleasant dreams. However, the authors of the reconstruction say that such perfumes would hardly be successful now: the modern public would consider their smell too piercing and intrusive.

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