• Recently, archaeologists have unmasked what is believed to be the world's oldest perfumes in Pyrgos, Cyprus

• The perfumes date aback more than 4,000 years
• The perfumes were discovered in an ancient perfumery factory
• At least 60 distilling stills, mixing bowls, funnels and perfume bottles were found in the 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m²) factory. In antique times people absorbed herbs and spices, like almond, coriander, myrtle, conifer resin, bergamot, but not flowers.

It contained more than hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, aromatic waters and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described lone hundred and seven methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even Perfume the perfume executive equipment, like the alembic, still bears its Arabic name.