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  DON perfume November 03, 2022   Perfume  ( French :   parfum ) is a mixture of   fragrant   essential oils   or   aroma compounds   (fragrances),   fixatives   and   solvents , usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable   scent .  The 1939   Nobel Laureate   for Chemistry,   Leopold Ružička   stated in 1945 that "right from the earliest days of scientific chemistry up to the present time, perfumes have substantially contributed to the development of   organic chemistry   as regards methods, systematic classification, and theory 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  coumarin , which allowed for the composition of perfumes with smells previously unattainable solely from natural aromatics. THE DIFFERENT PERFUME CATEGORIES Th