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Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, used 
to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. It is usually 
in liquid form and used to give a pleasant scent to a person's body. Ancient texts and 
archaeological excavations show the use of perfumes in some of the earliest human civilizations. 
Modern perfumery began in the late 19th century with the commercial synthesis of aroma 
compounds such as vanillin or coumarone, which allowed for the composition of perfumes with 
smells previously unattainable solely from natural aromatics alone. 
The word perfume derives from the Latin perfumer, meaning "to smoke through". Perfumery, as 
the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilization 
and maybe Ancient China. It was further refined by the Romans and the Arabs. In India, perfume 
and perfumery existed in the Indus civilization.