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By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the region of Grasse, France to supply raw materials to the growing perfume industry. Perfumes from this era generally contained floral and musky scents and were sometimes composed into solid forms like perfumed salt or smelling salts. These solid perfumes could be used to revive someone from fainting by exposing them to the ammonia gas released from the perfume and salt mixture. Additional solid perfume forms included pomanders, which were balls of f

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