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At 04:31 AM 5/20/2009, you wrote:
>We've been enthralled by this
>article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/oldest_perfume/ in which
>archaeologists discovered the world's oldest perfume . . . 4,000 years old.
>This of course, is long before the purported time of Jesus. However, the
>technique of burying a long-necked jug filled with herbs, oil and water over
>embers for 12 hours would be closer to what we call 'infusion'.
>
>None of this, of course, is true distillation, which requires vaporization
>and condensation. These reports, however, perhaps are the beginnings of the
>long journey to "pure" distillation with steam or water that we attribute to
>having invented somewhere in the 11th Century.

Thanks, Marcia... I had missed that..or forgotten it.

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