 Not quite, Christine. The tablets have really in-depth instructions that explain how certain ingredients may have been washed, steeped, filtered, heated, or clarified. Apparently, Assyrian perfumes were graded according to how many filtrations they went through. Lower quality perfumes for the road received 20 filtrations, while perfumes fit for the king were more refined and went through 40 filtrations. Oh, wow. So is this similar to techniques that we use today?