The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th generation a Discount Perfume book on perfumes which he named âÂÂBook of the Chemistry of Perfume and DistillationsâÂÂ. It contained also than hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, fragrant waters and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described alone hundred and seven methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even the perfume directing equipment, like the alembic, still bears its Arabic name.
The perfume composition will then be either worn to enhance another creation as a operative fragrance (shampoos, make-up, detergents, automobile interiors, etc.), or marketed and sold contiguously to the public as a fine fragrance.