Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Belatekallim, is considered to be the world’s first chemist, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.[1] She used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam. She added water then distilled and filtered several times.[2] This is also the oldest referenced still. She also was an overseer at a palace, and worked with a researcher named Ninu.