PURPLE

PURPLE is my favorite color

Question

the purple is associated with royalty for a simple reason that, until relatively recently in our history, it was an extremely expensive dye and only royalty could afford it.

However, till now, purple has the same meaning and mood : luxury. I am wondering if there were no such history, would we still think purple as a luxury color?

Royalty

The first purple, known as Tyrian Purple, was made from the mucous of sea snails. It required vast quantities of snails to create the smallest amounts of dye – up to 250,000 snails produced just one ounce. Even worse, the vats used to produce it had to be situated on the outskirts of Tyre (in what is today Lebanon) due to the dreadful smell that the process produced.