Tapputi

Mesopotamian perfume maker

Tappūtī-Bēlet-Ekallim (lit. 'Assistant of the Lady of the Palace')} is one of the world's first recorded chemists. She was a perfumer active in Assur during the reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I. As mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC, she used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam, which after adding water and other solvents were distilled and filtered several times. Tapputi was the head of a group of professional female perfumers and also was an overseer at the Royal Palace.

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