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Cleopatra demanded her perfume be audible. Luxury should be loud, apparently.

✗ FAKE

Cleopatra, the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, is associated with perfume in popular legend, but audible perfume is nonsense. The claim is a joke.

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