Xiang culture began in ancient times and flourished in Song and Yuan Dynasties, from the Book of Songs to Tang poetry and Song ci. There has been incense for thousands of years. The ancients used incense to convey a yearning and calm thought. Xiangxue is a systematic and exquisite culture. We use incense more in religion and some daily life fields, and the more famous ones are agarwood and sandalwood.
Perfume was made as early as ancient Egyptians, Arabs and Romans. The distillation technology of perfume is influenced by medieval refining technology to modern European royal aristocrats who like perfume. Now, in addition to extracting different flavors and fragrances from various natural plants, thousands of artificial flavors and chemical flavors have been invented.
From the development time, in fact, the development time of the two is almost the same, but it is recognized that Egypt is the first country to use perfume in the world, while China believes that perfume is a kind of fragrance culture, and pays attention to the craft, quality and self-procedure of utensils. In the west, perfume is used to conceal body odor and show personality and taste until it becomes a status symbol.