A research team from the University of Córdoba (UCO) has identified for the first time the composition of a Roman perfume with "patchouli smell" With more than 2,000 years old from the discovery of a small ointment in Carmona (Seville). Professor of Organic Chemistry José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola has been able to chemically describe the real components of a perfume of the first century AD.
In addition to numerous objects related to funeral rituals, the cinerary urns of six adult individuals, three women and three men, were found.