Art history student in Exeter, starting from zero

Hello and welcome, first.sniff.

Zero is where every one of us started, so you're in good company. Roses and strong tea make a lovely pair to begin with: sniff a tea bag, then a rose petal, then the tea again, and note the words that turn up. There's a page on tea as a perfume note for when you want more.

A perfume-maker called Tapputi turns up on a Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet dated 1200 BCE, according to Wikipedia's history of perfume. [An art historian will definately appreciate a clay tablet.] The History, Bottles and Houses circle is where the old stuff lives.

A clay tablet, that's me hooked. Tea bag and rose petal tonight.

Welcome, first.sniff. My nan's house was roses and a pot of tea you could stand a spoon in, so you're not alone. There's a lot of us here who started with a gran.