The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-15
A Budget about Fowers for perfumes


There are no more beautiful sights i'm
aginable than the fields of roses, violets
and other flowers, which are cultivated
with so much care and to almost as great
an extent, as is corn or potatoes. Different
parts of France and Italy are given up al
most entirely to this extensive flower cul-
ture. Grasse and Cannes excel in the cul-
ture OF the rose, cassie, jasmine and tube
roses. Nice is celebrated for its violet and
mignonette, while Cilly furnishes most of
the oranges and citron. To Italy we are
CHIEFLY indebted for the citric odors, as
lemon, bergamot cedrat limette, oil of
neroli and petit grain, but these last come
under the head of essential oils, which are
distinct from the pomades, the technical
name OF the raw material extracted from
the flowers. In Taggia Italy, is raised the
greatest quantity of the violet mostly used
IN perfumery, namely, the Parma violet
In erase there are about fifty factories,
IN which many thousands of men, women
and girls are employed. You can imagine
the extent of the business when | tell YOU
that on one day. acknowledge it was an
exceptional one-22, 900 pounds of the
orange flower alone were frought into the
factory. All the flowers are picked in the
early morning, when the dew is still upon
them, and brought in wagons as quickly as
possible to the factories. These are spread
out upon floors to allow the air to circulate
freely through them. The flowers that are
to go through the hot or macerating process
are then thrown into their grease bath.
Where they are left for stated number of
days, being frequently stirred In some
instances this grease is used over and over
until is has become perfectly saturated
WIN the desired quantity of the perfume,
Iresh flowers being thrown in each time.
Inc hnal extraction of the perfume ladened
grease is accomplished by hydraulic pres
sure, and the pomade is then ready for
USE
The manufacture of the pomades contin-
ues from May until September, the flowers
Delng much more valuable in the latter
month, owing to their stronger perfume.
GU can imagine to what extent perfumery
Is anufactured in this country when tell
you that from one hundred and twenty
Thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of pomade are imported each wear.
Inc value of the flowers consumed each
year at Grasse, Cannes, and Nice approx
mates 81, 100000.
one OF the most valuable of the essential
OILS is altar OF roses, which is made by dis
tilling the leaves of the rose centifolia with
water This queen of flowers, for it is uni
versally admired for its beauty as well as
It's fragrance, is grown in Turkey. India
and France, and it takes coo pounds of its
leaves to make enc ounce of oil. Wher
pure it is exceedingly pleasant, and it is
almost Invaluable to the perfumer. fol
there are few doors with which it will moi
tremendously combine. Here, for instance
is sample of the French altar of roses
Whlcn, on account of its purity, is mucf
more highly priced than the Turkish.
A tiny vial of the French altar of rose.
IS worth SIG, or four times as much as thu
Turkish altar costs.
why is it worth so much more,n do vol
asks ~
Simply because it is absolutely pure
while the Turkish is adulterated. Perfum
ers do not care to buy much of the pure ar
ticle, and scarcely twenty five ounces O
the French altar is sold in year compares
with the sale of the Turkish.
The Turkish altar is put up in fat cylin
drical-shaped TASKS of hammered copper
covered with white felt Each flask ha
upon it the Turkish SEAL The copper use
IS virgin copper, unalloyed; just as it come
from the mines.