Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-10
How Perfumery Is Made from Flow
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How PerfumeFy Is Made from Flow
The doors of flowers do not, as a general
rule, exist in them IS store or in gland,
but they are deveIoped-as an exhaiation.
While the flower bEeatheO it Yields fra
GRANGE, but kill the flower, and fragrance
ceases. 1t has not been ascertained when
the discovery was made of condensiug, as
it we're, the breath OF the flower during
life; what We know now ia, that if living
flower be placed near to butter, grease,
animal fat, or oil, those bodies absorb the
odor given of by the blossom, and in turn
themselves become fragrant. If We spread
fresh unsBlted butter upon the inside of
two dessert plates, and then fill one of the
plates with gathered fragrant blossoms OF
clematis, covering them over with the sec.
ond creased plate, we shall find that after
twenty four hours the grease has become
fragrant. The blossoms, though separated
from the parent stem, do not die for some
time. but live and exhale odor which is
absorbed by the fat. To remove the odor
from the fat. the fatmusthe scrsped of the
plates and put into alcobol; the odor then
leaves the grease and enters into the spirit,
grease again becomes odotiess. TIE flower
farmers Of the Var follow precisely this
method on q very large SCALE with but lit
tie practical variation, With the following
flowers: rose. nEAugAs aOHoIaI violet jas.
mine, tuberose and johquil. The process
is termed, as said before, eRtaeuTags, or in
Towering. In the valley of the river Var
there are acres of jasmine, of tuberose, of
violets. &c. In due season the air. Is laden
with fragrauce-tha AamAa- beFveSt 10 al
sauu. Women and children gather the
blossoms, which they place 10 liule pau,
niers like 6shsFmen's lbaskets, hung over
the shoulders. They are then carried to
the flower laboralory and weighed. 10
the laboratory the hsrvest of flowers has
been anticipated. During the previous
winter great quantities of grease, lard ant
beef suet have = been collected, melted
washed and clarified. The great success
of this process depends on the absolnt
purity of the grease employed, and NJ
pains are spared to this end. Ii
each laboratory there are several thou,
sand chassis (sashes), or framed glasses
upon which the grease to be scented Il
spread, and upon this grease the blossom
are spriukled or laid. The chase en- Urrr
is, tin fact, frame with a glass in it a.
near as possible like window sash, onl,
that Tho frame is7tWo inches thicker, 81
that when one chase is placed on another
there is space of four inches between
every two glasses, tbus allowing room 70
n'oEsohs- Every ehdSS6, is about two fee
long by eighteen inches broad, The hnWe
blossoms are changed every day, or ever,
other day, as is convenient to the genera
work OF the laboratory or floWesing of Ii,
plants. The same greasg, however, remain
IN the ehHsSs so long as tbeparticular plan
being used yields blossoms. Each time th
flowers are put on, the grenee is 'Worked
that is, serrated with kuife-so as t,
offer flesh surface Of grease to Absorb
odOr. The grease being inHowered in thi
Wsy for three weeks or more-in fact, 8,
long as the plants produce blossoms, Is al
last soraped of the chase, melted, straiued
and poured into tin canisters.-Dr, Piesse'l
MeetyreS.