The perfume consists of a mixture of ’burnt resin‘ and ’balsam oil'. There are myrrh, cinnamon and Chinese cinnamon in the perfume. Theophrastos stated that the Megaleion perfume is the most suitable perfume for women, at the same time, the fragrance of the perfume has the property of decaying for a long time, and this perfume can be considered among the expensive perfumes. The Romans also used this perfume, which we have already mentioned. Pliny mentioned in his work that he added balsam, cane sugar, sweet flag, cinnamon and pine gum to this perfume along with balanos oil.
留言