BACKGROUND

Perfume has always played a key role throughout the Antic period, in sacred and secular life but also in medicine.

Antique perfumes compositions differed significantly from today’s fragrances (vegetable oils, natural products, no alcohol bases)

HOW IT WORKS

Reconstitution of antique fragrances:

1. Archeological digs in ruins of perfumeries (Pompeii, Paestum, island of Delos)

2. Chemical analysis of discovered objects within ruins

3. Manuscripts and iconography analysis

• Reconstitution of antique perfumes
• Fragrance evaluation by professional perfumers
• Formulation of contemporary fragrance bases using an innovating methodology

DEVELOPMENT STATUS

Creation of a cosmetics range:

Formulation of 100% natural cosmetics products including the fragrance bases

APPLICATION

Cosmetics, Perfumery