Passion for Scent: the True Story of Perfume
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2024
- Did Patrick Süskind have a true story in mind when composing his bestseller ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’? This becomes one of the central questions of the documentary that tells the story of Giovanni Maria Farina. Farina was indeed the most famous perfume designer of the 18th century, the creator of ‘Eau de Cologne’ - once a unique fragrance, it has become a generic term for a certain type of perfumes. Farina’s client list was virtually the Who’s Who of the 18th and 19th centuries: Louis XV and Frederick the Great, Voltaire and Goethe - all yearned for Farina’s perfume. The obsession eventually led to an international trickery and a lawsuit - the trademark law did not exist back then. The film takes us through the most important stages in the life of the great perfume artist and follows his footsteps from Piedmont to Venice, Grasse, Paris, and finally to Cologne, where Farina’s descendants produce perfume to this day. Time and again, the traces bring us to Venice, at Farina’s time the gate to the Orient and the commercial metropolis for scents, spices and essences. It is here that the young Farina studies the perfume art. He masters his techniques in Grasse and finally becomes a royal court supplier. In 1709, his brother - responsible for the commercial part of the business - opens a shop in Cologne. Farina devotes his renowned fragrance ‘Eau de Cologne’ to his new hometown. Following the traces of the great perfume maker, the documentary discovers ever new parallels with Süskind’s Grenouille and further leads to another trace: Coco Chanel and her way to creating the most famous scent nowadays.
Director: Ina Knobloch - Zábava
I started watching this and paused it after a bit, and dashed on a few drops of a perfume oil I got in Egypt in 2002. I had learned by reading histories about the country that perfume was invented there in the days of the pharaohs, so I found a perfumer. The fragrance I'm wearing is a mixture called "Five Secrets" and it has lots of notes of Chanel No.5.
You should try No.5 extrait. Its the most beautiful and elegant fragrance
No undergarment is false . Undergarments were always worn to protect outergarments. Most likely linen if you were wealthy . Linens would absolutely get clean . But yes, the silk would not gotting washed but would not have been permeated with body odor.
Well, the only perfume that greets my very own nostrils now. Is a fine French Brandy that is enjoyed as I watched this wonderful documentary..
Most Loveley enjoyable this was, and thank you greatly for sharing...
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The mention of Chanel was quite a stretch in the beginning and middle of this film..she wasnt even born yet....strange to mention her at those points......and no real attention is given to the various areas of the world that scent production started in...This film is surely a history of perfume from a western European interest...Sad that its title is not accurate.
Well, aegyptians and romans were also perfume sort of fanatics. We have written proof of that thanks to some classic roman writers like Appolonio (if I am not wrong...) and some satyres he wrote, mocking some of the romans most narcisistic inclinations...Romans used sents taking directly from plants like lavendel, flowers etc... Although they used them in simple mingles with water. "Alloro" had divine fragrances and was used placed on VIP's heads, but also flower wreaths were not uncommon. Obviously, romans used "perfumes" just seasonally, probably not in winter but they used fresh plants or dried up sents like rosemary and many sents also had medical usage.
The Arabs are the legends of perfumery. im from the Philippines
They r? Then y does my cab driver stinks?😂😂😂😂
@@rogerlewis7770. Just like the English traded all over the world in spices, and yet their cuisine is lacking in flavor. 😅
@@tatumergo3931 Decades ago, yes, after two world wars, being an island they were cut off from much of the world until rebuilt from devastating bombing.Everything was rationed, including food, they mostly lived in what the local fields provided. If you dine in UK today, food is flavourful and international, as they host every nationality on earth! Of course they still have their basics, the English breakfast, fish & chips. and the Sunday roast dinner.
British pastries and desserts, are some of the very best to be found, anywhere.
@@margaretr5701 . Oh Margaret, you probably still haven't try Texas chili con Carne!
Cafe Florian has an extremely distinct smell.
exactly my state of being, near any stench odor and it has led me the think about creating natural fragrances not only for self but your offices homes in new way no, not yuccckkky febreezes or others full of chemicals artificial stink harmful for health.
I love perfumes. I saw the movie, I went to Grasse, in France, Fragonard, only for the sake of seeing how perfumes are made, and I was delighted to smell so many "fragrances". I collect them, I actually made my own perfume by mixing a few together, and my nose, enjoys the smell even when I am in the house by myself, and I put them on. My father, used to say, jokinly, that I was just like a sort of a perfumed prostitute 😂😄 I also love incenses.
I have a perfume basil. It has self seeded for over 30 years. Even the dead shrub in the winter is fragrant.
The history of perfume is much older than the 18th century.
True. Middle East, Egytians, China.....
This is a narrow focus
Didn't you know that Europeans invented the modern world, according to Europeans.
@@legiran9564they basically did. Got us most of the way there until US took over.
Even Jesus christ is European.
@@danielmelgar8918 Jezus Christ in reality was named Cesare Borgia and was the son of a mafia boss.
I believe American grunge icon, now sadly passed, Curt Cobain read about the life of this perfumer but also related & connected with his aversion to people & longing for solitary lifestyle.
Kurt Cobain
@leddielive Yeah, Kurt wrote the lyrics of ‘Scentless Apprentice’ based on Patrick Süskind’s novel ‘Perfume’ which is a fictional account of Farina’s life.
Like most babies smell like butter. His smell smelled unlike no other.
Funny how when they were talking about the bad hygiene habits forced by ignorance by no bathing or clothes washing, it reminded me of the stinkiest person I've ever met. His method of washing was to just soak and dry, so even after he'd take a shower he smelled just as bad as before because his clothes were still impregnated with his stench, too bad because he was smarter than average.
Highly informative! Giovanni - The Merchant Of Venice - I thought it all started in France.
This I why we need to have the truth told. Arabs created alchemy. Yeah they made distilled spirits.
A documentary about perfume that doesn't realize that smell is what your nose does and scent is what the nose is smelling. One can also use the word odour or fragrance but not smell for what wafts to us on the air!
Thanks for uploading. In my youth I was interested in perfumery. ❤❤❤
“ All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this hand “ - William Shakespeare. -.Macbeth
❤😅 , Oh my gosh !
😂 ...
Meaning the highest quality perfume will not have any effect to him
@@sangtuah1322... Did you know Prophet Mohammed was a Merchant till he was 40, then he heard the Angel? giving him messages.
Muslims say The Arabs Hijacked Islam and perverted the Religion. One of the Prophet's wives was from the then Noble families and both Buddha and Jesus had members of the then Nobility in their inner circles of advisors and it's how the three major Religions were altered, not for the better he says.
The Arabs were chosen (by the Farnese Nobility) to build the Artificial Intelligent City of NEOM with Roberts, MBS's 2030 Project as a blueprint for other countries to follow.
A.I. is alleged to be the Anti-Christ because it is created by humans.
Christ is from a different timeline than Jesus.
The Great Pyramid of Egypt Represents Christ the Divine Mind - The Christos Code.
@@sangtuah1322
? I don't understand ...
Don't mention the Scottish play!....ouch!
I thought they were the guys from Blackadder in the thumbnail.....
Don't mention the Scottish play!......ouch!
Neroli oil is expensive due to the flowers having to be carefully handpicked. It's a flavoring in Coca Cola.
Smells like a very interesting and brilliant History, wonderful.....
If you have never read the book Perfume , give it a read. Patrick Suskind....Perfume The Story Of A Murderer....it is an interesting story and an interesting finish 2 it.
Cool. Thank. I prefer books actually ❤
I bought it on Kindle yesterday at your suggestion and...wow. I read way too late into the night and up early to continue. Thanks!
I saw the film version.
I bought the book when it was first released after watching Apostrophe, the literary TV programme presented by Bernard Pivot.
@Garbeaux. The book is far more superior of course as it s often the case.
The almond smell of new born babes. Orange blossoms, arrowroot, yesterday today tomorrow all subtle and divine. Why did they cut down the shrub that smelt like toasted marshmallow. Oh to have the beautiful smells that adorn the garden. ❤ Dont deny the funky smells of decomposition of dead snails, microbes create the sweeter smells of soils which affect the perfume of flowers. Feed the soils. All that lead?
I LOVE it.
Thank u so much.
It’s annoying that this documentary keeps referring to a fictional story that has nothing to do with the story of focus here
Did you read the description? That was the thesis of this documentary : the parallels of the fictional story to Giovanni Maria Farina.
Yea that was annoying and confusing at times
Natural smells intoxicated me ..😊.
nothing smells better than stinky toe and stinky body..😊..
Natural and organic 😁.
Give the book and story a read it will change your mind and let you appreciate the fantastic book
@gretchenbaker7435 reading books 📚 are reading a personal point of view... that is written for attention seeking and capitalistic economic of coercion.. hmmmm.. I can't read or write. I am blind and deaf.. hmmmm.. the only thing I have is the balance of logic.
Are you guys talking about 4711? It’s advertised prominently in the Coln train station.
Yes
No it is not the 4711 it is the Farina 1709 Eau de Cologne.
Cologne or Köln
My dear sir,perfumes are older than the bible itself,rozewater was known to tribes of old iran. So called.also aromas for men and youngones.
What is fabulous documentary and finally he got a good wig at the end
Excelente filme
It's the PARTY CITY wigs for me....
Anyone know what perfume Somalis use? It is a very special smell and most people use it so that they smell the same.
Absolutely loved this! What an insightful video. We have just shared a few ebooks on perfume history and craft of perfume making for those who would be interested! 💜
Would have preferred more images of the time shown instead of the docu drama portrayed.
I like that everyone is hating on this doc. Cuz as a perfumer- it’s quite shit.
Thankyou sir for introducing of history of perfume
Narrow history. European centric
@@siouxsioux2725 European? Oh, the horror!
@@JohnDoe69X... So you don't think the Arabs copied from India?
Apart from difficulties understanding the narrator, this is not the "Best Documentary", nor is it a very fragrant video - it stinks! And I especially liked the barcode label displayed at 37:25. 😀
A stopped watching after the child in a wig😂😂
Unfortunately today's perfumes are made up of chemicals. 😢
Nowadays, around 20% of a perfume concentrate (on average) consists of naturals (essential oils, absolutes, isolates, etc.). But here's the thing: naturals consist of chemicals and nothing else than chemicals, water is a chemical, the air you breathe is a composition of chemicals, plants and animals are made of chemicals, you are made of chemicals and chemicals only. The whole universe is entirely made out of chemicals. Without chemicals: no life, no naturals, no scents, no perfume.
You mean synthetic chemicals... they're all made of chemicals
So? you're made up of organic chemicals, whether chains and in proteins or not.even your very cells are made up of chemicals, and fueled by chemical changes.
Synthetic perfume ingredients have been around since the 1800’s. Vanillin & coumarin are some of the first to be synthesised.
And there is literally nothing wrong with synthetic fragrance ingredients they are more times than not much safer when on skin than natural essential oils or absolutes.
People use perfumes for several reasons: the need to disguise unpleasant odors, the pride of showing off wealth and status and, of course, the desire to cause good feelings to other people in general or to someone in particular. Perfumes are to vanity what refined foods are to gluttony. Producing and using perfumes was not just a business. Before the end of the Middle Ages it was a potentially revolutionary business, because what encourages vanity certainly could not be welcomed by the Catholic Church. However, just as they indulged in greed, lust and gluttony, many priests, bishops and eventually Popes also allowed themselves to be corrupted by perfumers. The history of perfumes is a chapter in the history of our weakness. We are born destined to be victims of the senses through which we are invaded by the world and we appreciate it.
That is why all popes are fat- because they like to eat too much, gluttony is a sin. Taking a bath & being clean is not.
Perfume is not evil
I stopped wearing perfume - daily showers and Lume unscented triple milled soap followed by Lume unscented deodorant is good enough for me.
No spray bottles in the 18th century!!!
I was just thinking the same :)
I think they used an atomizer to spray their perfume
Derivative!
I have a super nose. I would’ve taken my life if I lived in this era… I smell everything!!! NYC is bad enough for me. I grew up on an island where there was a constant Caribbean salty breeze. Then, moved over to NYC. And I work for the state, and I’m stuck for the next 20yrs…😢
you dont have to be, the world is a big place
@@hetedeleambacht6608 not giving up my pension. Taking the federal exam so, I won’t be stuck in NYC. It does smell a bit better since I got here. We’re getting greener over time. lol! 😂 But, we have some ways to go. lol! Miss my little island paradise. I have multiple autoimmune disorders. I was so healthy back home. I have wondered if living near the ocean would make a difference. Maybe not. Only one way to find out. Wish me luck on that test so I can find out. 🤞🏼
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me too
Europeans thinking they invented everything 🙄
Venice traded with Turkey. Turkey was the gateway to the East, from whom they learned perfumeries, China, India, Persia.
I believe they are referring to modern history, as opposed to ancient history. Many of us realize that essential oils and other parts of plants/flowers have been used for millenia.
@@annettepiff4583 Yes, I understood that part. East and Western Asia were trading with Venice during the time of this man’s story. Same goes for coffee, coffee shops and pastries in Vienna that spread west from Turkey. Same goes for Swedish meatballs, aka Turkish kofta. The West and East have more connections than is generally known.
Europeans did invent modern alcoholic based perfumes.
@@markanthony4546 ah, alcoholic-based. The Arabs created alcohol.
And turky discovered coffee from arabs and arabs discovered coffee from Ethiopia, the turkish coffee u call it is actually Ethiopian coffee ,here in arab world we still use the traditional Ethiopian coffee cup too with its art design drawing @vmatin1
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Pity the narrator couldn't be bothered to learn how to say Giovanni properly. To say nothing of that old chestnut 'every one stunk.' Unfortunately one starts to doubt many of the facts presented here. Undergarments were not commonplace!!! How does the narrator explain the widespread presence of the washerwoman or laundry woman? Plenty of laundry lists in the records of the middle-upper classes. Jane Austen mentions them in her works. Also many garments required a stiff starch, shirt collars, lace, ect. How could this be achieved if nothing was washed!!!! While it is true that the elaborate costume of the day could not be washed, they could be unpicked if need be. Clean underlinen every day was the norm in middle -upper-noble layers of society. How many paintings featuring ladies washing themselves can one see in Art Galleries? Watch this programme with care. Unlike the devine perfumes, it is not 100% pure in information, as many will recognise!
that was clear to me from the beginning, it is a very much romanticised docu
I have to agree. Despite the fact people didn’t wash as often as we do. This is more to do with sanitation than a lack of cleanliness. Growing up in Scotland in the 1960s , a Sunday bath night was the norm. We did bathroom basin washes “ wash down to there, wash up to there, then wash there” as my Grandmother would say smiling, every night. Hair was washed over the bath with a mug & towel dried. We had a full bathroom and a bidet, we were far from poor. My school uniform was worn all week, woollen skirt & sweater spot cleaned during term time. Your blazer was never washed. It was wool felt. Woollen socks were worn for several days before being changed. My grandmother was born in 1907, her sisters in 1880 &1882. They had Saturday bath nights, washed their long long red hair fortnightly. Clean hair,apparently, didn’t hold a curl! They bathed in the evening in front of the fire in their bedrooms with large basins of hot water - brought by the maid.
We wash every day because we can, easily. Towels can be washed, easily. We can dry our hair, easily.
I don’t think people “stunk “. In all the old dresses I’ve bought ( 1880s to 1950s) many had armpit protectors. These pads were very common. They were a fantastic innovation, especially in silk costumes. There are recipes for alum “deodorants” from the 19thC, and I don’t believe any woman wanted smelly, wet armpits that would rot her clothes. “Drawers” or combinations meant you “got the air about you” ( thank you Grandmother) so there was plenty of ventilation around ones lady parts. And yes, there were always lots of laundry women in every town, village, country home, palace, abbey, convent, army camp - anywhere where people congregated. They wanted clean linen, hardly the actions or habits of people who preferred to stink. Think of the impact cotton had. People LOVED it. Easy to clean and wear. Perfect fabric for underthings.
I suspect people were cleaner and smelt better than we think. We are overly zealous when it comes to germs and “nastiness”. If we look back even 100 years ago we might be surprised by the standards of hygiene that were perfectly acceptable then. Having said that, I still Zoono my hands every morning!
@@amandapittar9398 Your profile picture and your comments are indistinguishable.
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@amandapittar9398 Interesting. Growing up in the 1960's in Virginia, USA, we pretty much bathed or showered every day.
Perfume was being worn in ancient Egypt in the form of oils so many things about this "documentary" are incorrect and I'm not even 7 mins in.
I find it so annoying that the narrator is unable to pronounce Giovanni. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Then get off your lazy ass and make your own video...
Grow up
I like the commitment he has for his wig.
The current language trend is to use the word ‘smell’ in place of scent or odor.
Yes, we are becoming stupid! Good luck kids!
I thought wax models can't move. Pinocchio looks so real.
this documentary did not cheap out on anything... except. the wigs...
Those wigs stink and they were full of lice among other creatures
Grass or Gratz?
Grasse
@@MuzakFavoGrasse is in France. Graz is in Austria, is the hometown of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and my paternal grandfather.
An extra forgot his costume at 23:02…
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The people who wear mask reminds me CIPHER PHOL AGENT IN WATER SEVEN 😊😊
1st 🥇
wow then
This is an extremely enjoyable documentary but why did they have that little boy wear a two-dollar wig it really spoils the whole thing for me being in the beauty business
THIS STORY STINKS !
Lordie what were they thinking with those ridiculous wigs?!?
Mostly .. nonsense .. with some fact .. and a lot of 'style'. Cleaning oneself by soaking in many other people's filth was frowned upon, not least in Bath Houses (which were often more like San Francisco flop houses than health spa saunas); but bathing, cleanly, in regularly refreshed 'hot tubs' .. large barrels, attached to a local laundry .. were expensive and hard work; the Sun King's palace, for instance, was not overly full of conveniences, bathing facilities, or monastic stalls and sinks.
A bowl, a jug, and some hot water from a kitchen were until the twentieth century the luxuries reserved for hostels, hospitals, and large houses with sufficient servants to do the hauling. A tin bath, wash over the sink, or shower-down under the pump (in a communal courtyard) were the luxuries of a well-paid labourer's household; with coarse or coaltar soap rather than Castile Soap as deodorant.
Lack of effective deodorants was the main problem faced, and the use of antiperspirants a quaint idea .. not unknown but more expensive (and dangerous) than the were healthy (of heavy metals and such); so working in a muck-spread field or hostelry with stables, down a pit or as a piss-taker, would involve a stench .. but even heaving heavily costumed bodies energetically around a fairly confined space in the Sir Roger De Coverly might raise a glow or some perspiration ..
'A touch Eu de Cologne, my dear?' 'Oh! Just a dab to the temples, thank you.'
;o)
Dangerous
People were filthy in them days and stunk bad no wonder the wanted a scent or perfume
.. AUGA + XABRÓN
Followed by the
"No: 4711"... the very first and most beautiful
UNISEX fragrance in the world... it's also fantastic after shave‼️
The French never bathed or even wiped themselves. Thats how scents came about..
Facts
Fraganard
Channel #5 a touch of lily, a splash of bergamot, a dash of Nazism
The lady at the beginning talking about smell is full of shit. So ridiculous 😂😅
lol, source? I love how this documentary speaks as if they knew Giovanni, but, like, what is the source? Also Gabriel Chanel didn’t make perfume. And the only purity she was concerned about was the racial purity of France 🙄
Gabriel Chanel didn't make perfume? What are you talking about? And what's this crap about the "racial purity of France"? What connection between Chanel and that do you have? She was a survivor. And that motivated her.
In a nutshell: Coco Chanel invented all the perfumes under the brand Chanel solely by herself (not true), perfumery started with one Italian chap (not true), the story of Farina is different from a fictional character from the book (no joke, Sherlock). There is no history of perfumery, just massive brand placements with a lot of myths. Waste of time.
uuuuggghhhhhhh! western personal hygiene, no wonder Asian hot nations were better of with less clothing and such abundance of nature around to create stuff India has legacy of it looonggg time of chandan pastes flowers Chameli, plants vegetations herbs very vital ,grass.. to what not...tree barks cleaning of teeth with various vegetations tree twigs.. naturally antifungal and antibacterial like 'neem, and others...
not only Venice, but all sea coastal towns of the world with no modern water treatment plants, have same age-old ancient systems of city toilet wastes going into waters and then on beaches people go and swim in those 'tatti' laden waters...just re-forming these old ancient fossil systems is such huge work for entire labor of world can get busy for at least coming couple of generations. and your dumb leaderships have no idea what 'Job creations' for overpopulation work ready labor means, or how to even think about new avenues... letting build everything haphazard chaotic mess
Did this narrator just pronounce Eau De Cologne as
Urh de Cul ugg nh?
I used to live in Cologne & even though non Germans say it
Col own
The Germans say Koln ( Kerln)
What the heck is Cul uggh?
Also perfume didnt just manifest out of thin air in the 1700s
Even school children know that
The ancient Eygptians adored perfume which was found in
Burial tombs
Also China with recent finds going back 8,000 yrs & was found to contain honey, a kind of
Ylang ylan, sweet & fresh & a sweet kumquat.
Arabia also used a perfumed Oil
This docu is dreadful & totally ignores the real history & origin
Alot further back than 1700.
The medieval wealthy people used perfume to mask body odour.
The upper classes rarely bathed
Nor had their flamboyant clothes
Cleaned or washed.
So to stop the stink of bodies they drenched themselves in
Eau de Pong
Patrick Suskind wrote the book
PERFUME,
Also made into a good film with
Alan Rickman & Dustin Hoffman who was very good as a dotty royal perfumier.
The book is a novel though not a history book of perfume
Why does the begining of this
Start in 1700 then jump from era to era
Its a bad video to learn from & its all over the place & had no
Concepts as part 1
Then part 2, etc
Hes hard to hear, talks over everyone & isnt translating what they say.
Im half way through & nothing sticks in my mind & none of it makes sense.
Im finished, its a waste of time
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# cruelty free stop torturing animals abuse them for making products
Such annoying music!!!
Who cares what some novel says? This is at least supposed to be based on facts, not fiction.
All that trouble and such a TERRIBLE WIG
The way the narration praises that traitor Coco Chanel…that made this unwatchable.
This whole video STINKS🤡
True story of perfume? The comments are right. Perfume history is older than middle century Europe
It's a wonder how so many people seem to think this documentary somehow gave the impression that perfumery started in the 18th century in Europe. 😂