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The consumption of aromatics prob-
ably reached its peak during this lavish period.
Perfumes shops were popular meeting places for
almost everyone and the daily bath was an impor-
tant activity of the Greek citizen. Different kinds
of unguents were used simultaneously with certain
scents reserved for particular parts of the body. The
Greeks are attributed with the art of making the first
liquid perfume, although it was quite different from
perfume as we know it today. Their perfumes were
fragrant powders mixed with heavy oils, devoid of
alcohol. The liquid was stored in elongated bottles
made of alabaster and gold, called alabastrums.

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