Peppermint essential oil, complex botanical hybrid
Illustrious since antiquity, peppermint was first described in England in 1696 and subsequently cultivated in Germany and then in the Netherlands around 1750. Traces of its cultivation date back nearly 4,000 years . In Edfu, Egypt, hieroglyphs found on the walls of a temple indeed allow us to consider that the Egyptians used mint to make a number of ceremonial perfumes . Then dedicated to Horus , it has also been found in fragments in various tombs. A bit of mythology When we talk about the gods of the Greek and Roman pantheons , as we approach the plant world, a basic structure often emerges: a god is caught fooling around with a nymph by his wife, who punishes. This is what happened to...
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