The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-11-27
ABOUT PERFUMES


balls army was ruined by passing one
winter, was noted for it's manufactures
of perfumes. The Capuan perfumes were
sent in earthen and glass vessels to all
parts of the Roman world.
#YCharlemagneis said by his biographers
to have been extravagantly fond of al
NEST any kind of perfume. One of his
courtiers said that the approach of the
emperor could always be detected by tie
odor of perfume that invariably accom-
panied him.
Nearly all animals are fond of one kind
or another of perfumes; lions and tigers
delight in the odor of the altar of roses;
cats are extravagantly fond of catnip and
wolves and several other kinds of wild
animals delight in the smell of asafoet-
ida.
| George " was fond of perfumes but
did not care for the Enblish manufac-
ture. He had all his perfumes brought
from Paris and a factory in South France
was kept running full time during the
season in making perfumes for the king
and royal family.
The first alcoholic perfumes was Hun
gary water made from rosemary by Eliza
beth of Hungary 1870, she having pro-
cured the receipt from Hungarian her
throughout all Europe in that and the
succeeding century.
Several substances, whose odor is to
Western nostrils exceedingly repugnant,
are highly esteemed in the East as per-
fumes. In Persia and Afghanistan, asa
foetida is considered delicate perfume,
| and many luxurious persons carry a
quantity of it in their pockets or in bag
suspended from the neck.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles doctors carried canes with hollow
heads, perforated like a pepper castor
These contained aromatic powders, and
when, entering a sick room the doctor
would strike the cane smartly on the floor
| and apply it's head to his nose for the pur-
pose of disinfecting that member and
| thus prevent contagion.
Scores of bottles which once contained
! pefumes. have been found in Pompeii. In
one jar having capacity of two gallons
there was very delicate and ethereal
| perfume, the composition of which is not
known. There WAS over gallon of the
| liquid left in the receptacle, but upon
being exposed to the air it began to exap-
crate so rapidly that the bottle was her.
| metically sealed in order to retain it,
| In the collecting of perfumes two proc
| esses are employed. In one, the grease
| process, boxes with glass bottoms are pre-
| pared, the bottom being covered with
| pure grease, or suet, and flowers, gath
cred fresh every day during the season,
ere laid on trays in the box the grease
being left to absorb their fragrance. In
the oil process the place of the grease is
| taken by cotton batting saturated with
| oil, the process being substantially the
| same. In both cases the vehicle becomes
lindpreghated with the essential oil and
oaor Of flowers.
A leading authority on perfumes di-
vides the entire list into twelve series.
| % Floral, AS of the rose, violet. and the
| like; ca herbal, as of the bargamot. mint
and other aromatic plants; co the grass
series, comprising several fragrant grass
es which grow in Ceylon or India. as the
| orange grass, which contains an essential
oil identical with that of the orange and
| ginger grass, which has perfume of the
| ginger root; ca the citrine series COM
prising the orange, lemon and their COM
| binations; 90 the spice series. derived
! from the Glove, cinnamon, allspice and
| the like; CO. the wood SERIES as the san
dial wood, sassafras, rosewood, which de-
| rives it's name not from the fact that if
| has the color of roses, but from the odor
exhaled by it when fresh cut; ca the root
series, as the orris root and manv others.
| (8) the seed series, as the caravan and
| vanilla; 90 the balm and gum series of
which there are many varieties: 1O) all
perfumes and essences derived from
| fruits; the eleventh series consists of
| combinations of the foregoing varieties.
| and the twelfth comprises all animal per-