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Detailed explanation-1: -Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.

Detailed explanation-2: -The resultant discovery was the first synthetic dye (mauveine), originally named “Tyrian purple” until Perkin decided on the name “mauve.” Thereafter, purple became a highly popular color in Victorian England.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most prized and expensive dye was called Tyrian purple, which came from small mollusks called murex snails. The natural historian Pliny remarked on the rather unpleasant smell of the murex conchylium-one of the marine gastropods often used to produce the prized purplish-red dye.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Henry Perkin, a young London chemist, patented a synthesis in 1856 for a purple dye he created by accident whilst trying to synthesise quinine, a Victorian anti-malarial. This discovery brought purple, a colour so expensive it had previously only been afforded by royalty and the church, to the mass-market.