Later on as trade routes grown, perfume became very popular and demand for scent products enhanced business among different cultures. Africa and India started to deliver Middle Eastern civilization with spikenard and ginger herb. Syrians sold fragrant goods to Arabia. Mediterranean civilization began buying cymbopogon and ginger from South Arabia. And so the trade of scent goods kept on, and as it constant to swell, fragrance perfume was eventually introduced through time to several cultures such as Hinduism, Israelites, Carthaginians, Arabs, Greeks, Romans and finally introduced hundreds of years later in Italy and France.
By the 13th century Italy was doing major trades of spices or herbs and perfumes with Eastern civilizations. Portugal and Spain were also seeking to establish important trades of spices by having exclusive routes to the East. That`s how the new world of America got to be discovered.
As Italian perfume impact grabbed the attention of over neighboring countries, France began broadening the use of perfume by first offering perfumed safety gloves, which were most often perfumed with neroli or animal scents such as ambergris and civet. From then on, French perfume has become famous globally and today sets the standard for brilliance.
Also France played a major role in establishing the use of perfume for treatment functions in the western world. It has been reported that during Word War II, therapeutic perfume had been used in the treatment of wounds and burns, and later in the treatment of psychological problems.
Perfume has introduced different people together in the past through the trade of fragrant scents. It also played a major deal, since its trade meant cost-effective power for the nations. And so the history of modern man has been greatly influenced by this special product, empowering new worlds to be identified. On a personal level, perfume is capable of having an effect on people`s tendencies and that by itself sets perfume in class by itself. Perhaps that`s what makes it so appealing by all of us.