(peaceful piano music )
- "Live Record" today, we are at the Cyprus Perfumery.
This is a research center/themed park
where they reconstructed the ancient way
through which they produce perfumes here in Cyprus.
And actually, historically,
this is the most ancient found perfumery in the world.
We're going to learn
about all the different ancient techniques
that they use to create perfumes,
and they even have the oldest perfume ever found,
which is called "The Secret".
- What we see here is an exact replica
of the ancient perfumery of Pyrgos in Limassol.
Pyrgos in Limassol, in 2004 it was found,
as it is claimed by the archeological team,
the most ancient perfumery in the world.
It is dated of 2000 BC.
Here we can see even the pots, exact replica of the pots
as they were found in the exact position
as they were found.
The reason that the archeological team claims that it's
the most ancient perfumery in the world,
is because there they used to produce perfumes
using all the known methods at that time.
And as well as that we found even in mixtures,
blends, of different essential oils
which is indicating that they used to really do perfumes.
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- Is it working?
Is it producing essential oils?
- [Perfumer] Looks like it, yes.
- Oh, it looks like it!
Okay, so we had that burning for a while,
and there are pine needles inside
and you can see that the essential oil
is already rising all the way to the top,
along with the the moisture.
And eventually it's gonna start flowing from here.
(George sniffing)
I can smell it.
Eventually if you leave it
for a long while,
it's gonna start - Yes.
- creating like essential oils - It started,
after many, many hours, you will get...
- The pine needle essential oil.
- Yes.
- Good.
- If you think about it in the ancient times,
they worked with natural perfumes,
essential oil-based and aside from just using them
to feel beautiful and to create a certain kind of effect,
they also used them spiritually,
'cause every single flower, every single essential oil
has different qualities both spiritually, emotionally,
mentally, and physically.
So at the same time of using something
to beautify themselves, they would also use it
for emotional, physical and mental purposes as well.
(peaceful music)
- Which one is this one?
- Have that.
- It's called "Aura"?
Oh, wow.
So good.
(George breathes deeply)
(George sighing)
That is a wrap on the Cyprus perfumery.
Did you enjoy it?
- Yes, I loved it here.
I loved it as well, - So,
- me!
- And I loved learning about all the traditional ways
of making perfumes.
- Yes.
Especially because they use essential oils
and different blends,
creating different perfumes for different circumstances.
We have the floral ones, the more grounding ones,
they have healing properties, emotional properties,
physical healing properties.
It was just so magical.
And it sort of gives you a sense
of perspective as to how we've started
and where we've been as a result of that.
- Yeah, especially for you,
since you are Cypriot, - Yeah!
- and it was invented here.
- Yeah, well, - Well, invented,
- invented, - invented, you know...
it was the oldest perfumerie found,
- Found.
- and the oldest perfume found
until this point. - I understand.
- But it makes sense, because we are the
Island of Aphrodite, so you would expect
(both laugh)
the Isle of Aphrodite to have kind of invented perfumes.
So yes, off to the next adventure!
- Indeed!