The world's first recorded chemist is weighed to be a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.

Knowledge of perfumery came to Europe as Solid Perfume ancient as the 14th century due partially to the spread of Islam. But it was the Hungarians who ultimately curious the first latter-day perfume. Counterfeit of scented oils blended in an alcohol solution, the first modern perfume was unreal in 1370 at the command of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary and was known throughout Europe as Hungary Water.