Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Louis XIV of France could spend the modern-day equivalent of millions of dollars with a snap of his fingers. In 1674 he commissioned an “apartment of the baths” at the palace in Versailles containing a tub made of marble that later generations would mistake for a swimming pool.
He also constructed an “orangery” to hold 2,000 orange trees for the purpose of making orange blossom perfume.The king was crazy about the odeur de Nerolie, a floral essence produced from the blossom of the bitter orange tree, first introduced as a fashionable fragrance in the 17th century by an Italian princess, who was using it to perfume…
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