Perfume derives initially from countries with an ancient civilization such as Egypt ,India ,Rome ,Greece and Persia.Eastward Expedition of the Crusades has brought splendid oriental culture for Europe in the 11th centuries ,and perfume,the delighting article of luxury,were increasingly accepted and been fond of by European .
但是直到十六世紀以前,法國的香水工藝還很落後,香水的使用遠未形成風氣,那時候的法國人甚至拒絕洗澡,壹般人家裏沒有浴室設備.
The French perfume handicraft falls behind very much until the 16th century.Perfume sigmatism has not formed.And what's more,French refused to take a bath at that time ,even average homes did not have bath equipment at all.
1533年,教皇的侄女凱薩琳下嫁法王亨利二世,她帶來了豐富瑰麗的意大利文化和生活方式,也成為了法國香水文化的始作俑者.她的專職香水師還在巴黎開了第壹家香水公司,此店的遺址還能在巴黎找得到.
In 1533,when Pope's niece married to the king of France,HenryⅡ,she brought rich magnificent Italian culture and life-style,and became the creator of France perfume culture.Her perfumer ran the first perfume company in Paris ,which can be found in Paris now,leaving only ruins.
而後來的壹位國王亨利四世卻對香水不以為然,百姓都譏笑他是臭王.路易十三也是個臭王,他的王後對他的臭味忍無可忍,但直到臨死前才告訴她的侍女,於是侍女們信誓旦旦向她保證,在她死後,壹定用幹凈的亞麻布、香水和她收集的340副有香味的手套給她陪葬.
The next king,Henry Ⅳ was not interested in perfume and people all sneered at him as a smelly king.The Louis ⅩⅢ was also a smelly king ,and his queen could not stand his smell.However,she did not tell her maids until dead,so her maids promised to her with an oath that it's absoulutely done to prepair clean linen,perfume and 340 pairs of the glove she collected as buring stuff.
路易十四壹點都不像他的祖先,他對於臭味極其敏感,他命令宮廷香水師必須每天調制出壹種他所喜歡的香水,否則就有上斷頭臺的危險.故後世對他有“香皇”之稱.到了路易十六,更是動用傾國之力將意大利的香水及香皂工業高手挖過來,從此奠定了法國香水工業的基礎.
Unlike his ancestors,Louis ⅩⅣ was a smell shaper.He ordered that perfumers in the palace must modulated ont kind of perfume he liked in each day,or they are threatened to be cut the head.So he was called "the incense emperor " in the later ages.In Louis ⅩⅥ,overwhelming power was used to hire proficient from