READING PASSAGE 2
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27
Questions 14-27 which are based on Reading Passage
2.
Hunting Perfume in Madagascar
A. Ever since the
unguentari
unguentari plied their trade in ancient Rome, perfumers have to keep abreast
of changing fashions. These days they have several thousand ingredients to choose from when
creating new scents, but there is always demand for new combinations. The bigger the
“palette7 of smells, the better the perfumer’s chance of creating something fresh and
appealing. Even with everyday products such as shampoo and soap, kitchen cleaners and
washing powders, consumers are becoming increasingly fussy. And many of today’s
fragrances have to survive tougher treatment than ever before, resisting the destructive power
of bleach or a high temperature wash cycle. Chemists can create new smells from synthetic
molecules, and a growing number of the odours on the perfumer’s palette are artificial. But
nature has been in the business far longer.
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