Crusading warriors doused themselves with perfume before battle, believing that perfumed clothing would bring good luck.
Source: Reader’s Digest Everyday Life Through the Ages… Read More
Henry IV, grandfather of Louis XIV, hardly ever bathed. He purportedly smelled so bad that his new queen doused herself in perfume on their wedding night to mask his smell.… Read More
Food adulteration was common in the 19th century. Flour was often mixed with chalk, plaster of Paris, sawdust, bone meal, or lime. Snails were tossed into watered-down milk in order to thicken it with their mucus and to add an attractive froth.