CHEMICAL PERFUMES. 



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Chemistr\- has achieved splendid results with Vanillin. 

 This is obtained from the sap of the 

 ^'oung growing wood of Conifers 

 and also from Eugenol, which 

 is contained in Oil of Cloves 

 and man)' other substances. In 

 the course of vears its manu- 

 facture has become so much 

 cheaper that, whereas in the 

 }'ear 18(>7 one kilogramme cost 

 six thousand marks, a hundred 

 kilogramines can now be 

 bought for that sum. 

 Vanilla pods ^-ield only 

 from one-and-a-half to two 

 per cent of ^"anillin under 

 the most favourable condit- 

 ions; so that with 

 1 rom twent\' 



to twenty-// five gramr 

 of Vanillin// the same 

 satisfact 

 jjerfume 

 gramme 

 tropin" 

 Safrol, this 



product of a Japanese Cam- 



phor oil. The cjuantitv of perfume obtained 

 from the tlowers of Heliotropes (Helio- 



., 7 • -7 Narcissus 



1rop2iin pcriiviaintin -ax^q grand if lorum) is Tazeita. 



