Bugün öğrendim ki: ilk kaydedilen kimyager Tapputi adında bir kadındır. Babil Mezopotamya'sında MÖ 1200 yıllarında çivi yazılı bir tablette adı geçen bir parfüm üreticisiydi. Mezopotamya Kraliyet Sarayı'nın gözetmeni olarak Mezopotamya hükümeti ve dininde güçlü bir rol oynadı.
Babylonian perfume-maker, considered to be the world's first recorded chemist **Tapputi** , also referred to as **Tapputi-Belatekallim** ("Belatekallim" refers to female overseer of a palace),[1] is considered to be the world's first recorded [chemist](/wiki/Chemist "Chemist"), a [perfume](/wiki/Perfume "Perfume")-maker mentioned in a [cuneiform](/wiki/Cuneiform "Cuneiform") tablet dated around 1200 BC in [Babylonian](/wiki/Babylon "Babylon") [Mesopotamia](/wiki/Mesopotamia "Mesopotamia").[2] She used flowers, oil, and [calamus](/wiki/Acorus_calamus "Acorus calamus") along with [cyperus](/wiki/Cyperus "Cyperus"), [myrrh](/wiki/Myrrh "Myrrh"), and [ balsam](/wiki/Balsam "Balsam"). She added water or other solvents then [distilled](/wiki/Distillation "Distillation") and filtered several times.[3] This is also the oldest referenced [still](/wiki/Still "Still"). She also was an overseer at the Royal Palace, and worked with a researcher named (—)-ninu (the first part of her name has been lost).[4]