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Jun 24, 2024

First chemist in history may have been a female perfumer—how the science of scents has changed since

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Perfume making dates back at least 3,000 years—to the time of Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who is considered the first chemist in history. What we know about her comes from inscriptions on fragments of clay tablets dating back to the Middle Assyrian period (1400–1000BC).

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