The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-05-04
WHERE SOME OF OUR I'M.
PORTS COME FROM
PERFUMES

Ml!ady America paid Si-oi-si1, cur
ing the last year for perfumes, cos
metics and toilet preparations, a fact
which has led to confused specula-
ton by mere man as 10 what she did
with them.
The real romance and adventure in
the statement lies not SO much in the
uses TO which these imports were put
as where they came from The sunny
isles and lands along the Meiite-rane-
an probably grew some Of the flowers,
others perhaps were plucked by dark
Moorish hands in Algeria. and mayhap
an animal In the breeding hills Of
western China gave its life to furnish
one constituent OF the perfume.
The vegetable kingdom is necessarily
the most fertile source Of perfumes.
From its flowers such as the rose and
jeSsamine, and from its seeds, woods
and barks, such as the spices and san
dalwood, even the most faStidiouS
c0nnoiSseul would be able 10 select
either some simple odor or complex
bouquet Nor are they for perfumes
alone, but for seeming soaps. creams.
pomades, and in making hayorings
and extracts.
Rosemary, thyme. sweet basil. and
marjoram are found in great pro-
fusion in Mediterranean countries, and
here the chemist can diSrill the whole
plant and not bother about picking
The flowers. Shakespeare, the unfail-
ing naturalist that he was, made no
error when he chose for Ophella the
| flowers she scattered.
The old-fashioned lavender flowers
| in which our srandmothers used TO
| pack the household linen. and their
| rich old lace grew best in France and
I England.
The rose seranium, which has such
| an exquisite odor is also grown and
| distilled in France, but Spain, AgierS,
and the Island OF Reunion engage in
| the industry. Unlike the lavender,
however, the perfume OF the roSe ger
( anium comes from its leaves and No.
I from the flowers.
But the country that might well be
known by its scent is Bulgaria, FOR its
rose crop is second only 10 its tobacco
Over 1890 acres Of land in the prov
lnces Of Philippopolis and Srara Ia
| CORA are given 70 the growth Of roses
| from the petals Of which altar OF roses
/ is distilled. In the wonderful gardens
II kazanlik. kariovo, kliSoura and
/ Sara Zascra. the best o. the flowers
are grown.
About toar thousand pounds OF roses
are produced on al acre OF land, bu,
il takes about two hundred pound:
of petals 70 produce an ounce Of oil
FOR an altar which before the war eosr
about $50 pound.
Roses are grown in other parts Q,
the Balkans. As we'll as in ASiatic Tur
key. and in India. Persia. the Fayuu
province IN Egypt. and in France. TIL,
industry lately has been introduced
into Germany.
The animal perfumes are extreinei.
limited in number. ArSergriS is Sc
GREETED by the sperm whale, ciyit by tn,
animal OF the same name, and musl
by the musk tx. the musk rat. ant
the musk deer. which is found In tn,
high Himalayas, Tibet, and eastern
Siberia. About 1900 ounces Of musk
usually in the grain form, are annual
~ imported 10 the United States from
China and India. Musk has one pc
culiar and almost ineNplicable charac
teriStic. One grain of IT kept freel,
exposed TO the air OF well-ventilate,
room, will impregnate the atmospher
for ten years without SeRSibly dinin
} iShing In weight.