The world's first recorded chemist is examined to be a guy named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.

The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th life a book on perfumes which he named ‘Book of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillations’. It contained more than hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, ambrosial waters and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described sole hundred and seven methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even the perfume central equipment, like Discount Perfume the alembic, still bears its Arabic name.