30S SANDAL WOOD. 



demand for the natural product increased also. As with 

 tlie \^iolel perfume, so it has been with other vegetable 

 perfumes; the competition of the artificial products, instead 

 of harming them, onh' served to increase their output. 



In Grasse, too, the aroma from the heavih--perfumed 

 \-ellow Jonquil {Aai'cissusjoiiquilla), has, until quite recent- 

 h". been extracted in cold fat b\' the process of enfleurage ; 

 it is now amongst those plants treated by Petrol-ether. 

 Onh' the single-blossomed Jonquil is grown in Grasse 

 for the scent factories. 



As at the time of our sojourn in Grasse Jonquils 

 were alread\' getting scarce, tlie work with fresh flowers 

 was becoming slack in the factories. Orange -flowers, 

 Roses, Heliotropes and Reseda onh- come in Ma\-. For 

 this reason the\- had taken the Sandal-wood in hand. 

 We saw large piles of this valuable brown wood stacked 

 in the store houses. It is ver\ expensive, for it is like- 

 wise much treasured in its East Indian home. There 

 tlie\' manufacture beautiful carved furniture, especialh' 

 costl}' boxes, out of this wood. For its fragrance keeps 

 off insects and dri\-es away even the all-destroying white 

 ants. The Buddhists burn great quantities of Sandal-wood 

 as incense, and the vSandal trees have been cjuite exter- 

 minated in some places. In the factories Sandal -wood 

 oil is obtained Irom the cliopped up wood h\ distillation 

 with water. The oil passes out with the steam from the 

 retort into the cooler, whence it flows with the water 

 into the receiver. From twenty-five kilogrammes of wood 

 about one kilogramme of oil is extracted ; this is conse- 

 t|uently expensive and is onh' used for very fine perfumes. 



