RIMMELS PERFUME VAPORIZER. 



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sphere of our rooms is in the same state now, in Europe generally, as it was 

 in the time of the Egyptians, the Jews, and other nations of remote anti- 

 quity. 



The modern West-end lady who burns a pastille in her boudoir is not, 

 perhaps, aware that she is using the same ingredients that the Egyptian 

 priest placed in his censer to burn as incense, or that Moses was commanded 

 to offer to the Most High. But so it is, nevertheless. It seems strange 

 that, in this age of wealth and refinement, no one should have thought of 

 replacing the heavy empyreumatic odour and smoke of aromatic woods and 

 resins by a more refreshing and genial fragrance, until the ingenious per- 

 fumer, Mr Rimmel, has brought into use a process which throws into the 

 shade all such antiquated practices. 



" The Perfume Vaporizer," as he __ -^__ =m 



terms it, is a simple and elegant 

 apparatus, supported on a pedestal 

 and heated by a spirit-lamp, as is 

 shown in the annexed engraving. 

 It is composed of a lower chamber 

 or water-bath, and of an upper 

 basin fitting into the other, and 

 communicating with it by means 

 of a tube or worm pierced with 

 holes. Perfumed water is placed 

 in the lower chamber, and a semi- 

 alcoholic perfume in the upper. 

 As soon as the water in the bath 

 reaches ebullition, the steam is 

 carried into the upper basin by 

 means of the worm, and volatilises 

 all the fragrant molecules, which 

 become diffused through the atmo- 

 sphere with astonishing rapidity. 

 From ten to fifteen minutes suffice 

 to perfume a whole theatre, and an 

 apartment naturally requires much 

 less time. 



The pleasant vapours thus generated can be varied ad infinitum, and 

 embrace all perfumes that have as yet been extracted from flowers or 

 plants, such as the rose, violet, sweet-briar, &c, which are given out in all 

 their freshness and purity — in fact, the effect produced may be compared 

 to the exhalations from a blooming parterre on a fine May morning. Although 

 delicate in the extreme, the odour thus obtained is so powerful as to diffuse 

 itself thoroughly, and overcome immediately all obnoxious smells : even 

 the strong and penetrating fumes of tobacco are completely destroyed by its 

 influence, probably owing to the aqueous nature of the perfumed vapour. 



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