 Well, she had a pretty cool job. She was head of a group of female expert perfume makers in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq and Iran. Taputi and her team created and blended fragrances for the royal family. They used their botanical knowledge to gather aromatic and medicinal plants, herbs and flowers, then extracted the essential oils to create the perfumes. I want to say this sounds relatively simple, but I'm sure it's not. Did they just throw some of the ingredients together?