Al-Kindi the Perfumer: The 9th-Century Polymath Who Wrote Perfumery’s First Great Manual
Al-Kindi (Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī) was a 9th-century Iraqi polymath at the Abbasid court in Baghdad. He wrote “The Book of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillations” (Kitāb Kīmiyāʾ al-ʿIṭr wa-l-Taṣʿīdāt), an early, systematic perfumery manual with 107 recipes and step-by-step distillation instructions (including rose water). The treatise lists apparatus, methods .
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