A Process for Imparting to both Natural and Artificial Flowers a Permanent Scent or Fragrance of any desired kind.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Process for Imparting to both Natural and Artificial Flowers a
Permanent Scent or Fragrance of any desired kind.
I RUSTOMJEE HORMUSJEE BANA Perfumer and Soap Manufacturer of
Navasari, Baroda State, British India, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof :-
The object of my invention relates to the imparting of a permanent scent of any
desired kind to flowers, sprays, twigs, leaves etc. whether artificial or natural.
Hitherto all such scents when exposed to the air speedily disappear whereas by my
process the scent imparted lasts for years under any and every exposure to the
atmosphere whether in flower pots or in vases. In producing this permanent scent
I use the following ingredients.
1st. As a base I use paraffin wax
And benzoic acid
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6 ounces.
1 drachm, or benzoin 1 oz.
2nd. With this base I use any of the following well known essential oils and
extracts.
Oil of patchouly
Oil of petitgrain
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15 minims.
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20 minims.
Oil of sandalwood -
Oil of cedarwood
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half drachm.
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half drachm.
Oil of geranium (or ginger grass)-
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half drachm.
Oil of lavender
Extract of civet
half drachm.
Extract of musk
Extract of tolu
1 drachm.
1 drachm.
Extract of Tonquin bean
Extract of vanilla-
Extract of orris root
1 drachm.
1 drachm.
1 drachm.
1 drachm.
The above proportions of the several quantities are preferably to be used but
they may be varied to a certain extent without impairing the permanency of the
scent. Any one of the above essential oils or any one of the extracts, combined
with benzoic acid or benzoin and paraffin wax gives a permanent scent, or an oil
and an extract may be used together, as the addition of the extract serves to
strengthen the permanence of the scent. Or any of the other sweet essential oils
may also do instead of the above oils. As an inferior base common wax with
mineral oil or spirit may be used, instead of paraffin wax and benzoic acid. The
process for preparing the base that gives permanence to the scent is as
follows:-
The paraffin wax is melted in a water bath after melting it is removed from the
bath and the benzoic acid is mixed in with it, the fluid wax being stirred with a slip
of wood while the mixing is being effected. Then the oils and the extracts above
referred to are added thereto each according to the scent desired. Into the
mixture thus formed pieces of paper or cloth of diverse colors are lipped, taken
out and cooled after which they are formed into artificial buds and flowers in the
usual manner of making such. After completion they are again dipped into the
benzoic mixture, taken out and cooled and then pressed into a proper figure and
may be wound over a piece of cloth which may or may not have already been

page_text: saturated in the mixture, or the artificial flowers may be first formed and medicated
with the mixture afterwards.
Natural flowers such as button flowers, marigolds, budmogra, bousan etc. which
do not soften when dried I put upon iron or brass wire stems and dry in the shade.
They are then in their natural colors dipped into the aforesaid benzoic mixture
made as above described, taken out and cooled when the operation is completed, or I
take the dried natural flowers and change their hues to any desired color by dyeing
in any of the well-known aniline dyes and afterwards subject them to the process
above described for natural colored flowers.
Flowers made as above described and placed in sick rooms act to a certain extent
as disinfectants, but I make much stronger scented disinfectant flowers, by adding
to the mixture hereinbefore described, carbolic acid, eucalyptus oil or any other
disinfectants and treating the flowers as above described. The proportion given
may be increased or decreased according to the force and permanency of the scent
required.
If benzoin is adapted for benzoic acid, the paraffin wax is heated in a water bath,
the benzoin powder is mixed in it, kept on the fire for a short time, and then
strained. It is then treated as benzoic acid.
Any one of the extracts with one of the oils and with the benzoic acid and the
paraffin wax will suffice for the work, but the addition of one or more of the other
extracts and one or more of the oils strengthens and enhances the freshness,
gratefulness, and permanency of the scent imparted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim as new is :-
"
1st. The process hereinbefore described of imparting to natural and artificial
flowers a permanent scent or fragrance of any desired kind, by the use in
combination of paraffin wax and benzoic acid or benzoin or other equivalents
therefor, and adding thereto one or more essential oils and extracts, and in
immersing the said flowers or other articles in the heated solution, substantially as
described.
2nd. The method herein before described of imparting a permanent disinfectant
scent to flowers or other articles, substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of September 1894.
BREWER & SON,
Agents.