From Tapputi to Today — GLO Keeping Perfume Pure

Over 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, a woman named Tapputi-Belatekallim made history.

She’s considered the world’s first recorded chemist and perfumer, meticulously distilling a blend of flowers, oils, myrrh, and cypress into fragrant elixirs — long before laboratories or synthetic ingredients existed. Her recipes were etched into clay tablets, evidence that artistry and science have always been intertwined — and that women have always been at the forefront of both.

At Great Lakes Olfactory (GLO), we carry Tapputi’s spirit forward.

Like her, we blend nature’s raw botanicals by hand — not in pursuit of mass production, but in devotion to purity, patience, and beauty. Each GLO scent honors the natural world, crafted with care and intention — the same way Tapputi once distilled her flowers under the Mesopotamian sun.

Perfume began with women.

And with GLO, it returns to its roots.

-Connie

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Explore GLO’s all-natural fragrances at gloperfume.com