Fifteen hundred years before the Common Era, “the choicest perfumes ” were included in the divinely given formula for the holy anointing oil used by Israelite priests.
उदाहरणार्थ, स्त्रियांनी येशूच्या मृत शरीराला लावण्यासाठी सुगंधी द्रव्ये व सुवासिक तेले कबरेत नेली.