1 Samuel 8:13 - "He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers."

The confectioner was a female perfumer or apothecary, similar to a woman chemist of today who works for a perfume manufacturer, distilling new scents. In biblical times, these women gathered the blossoms when the orange-trees, the violets, and the roses were in bloom, and then made from them scented waters which …