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that we were only able to supply the demand on condition that we were 

 allowed a reasonable time for delivery. The rise in the rose oil market 

 has of course also contributed to give more life to the business — hence 

 we were forced to cancel, after a short time, the reduction in price which 

 we introduced in the month of July. 



Heliotropin. Since we have been successful in again preparing at 

 a cheaper rate and on a larger scale the raw material of heliotropin, viz., 

 safrol, the trade in heliotropin has naturally revived again, especially 

 because it has been possible to reduce the prices almost to their previous 

 level. Several manufacturers who in former years had set themselves the 

 task systematically to ruin the market, have retired from the field, as a result 

 of which the trade has now begun to bear a healthier stamp. 



Honduras Balsam. Honduras Balsam, on which we reported some 

 years ago 1 ), has recently been examined again by Tschirch and Werd- 

 muller 2 ). These authors found the balsam to contain, in addition to the 

 already known constituents, /^-honduroresene, a white powder, insoluble 

 in the ordinary solvents; hondurane, a liquid hydrocarbon C 8 Hi , b. p. 

 154 to 155°, the cinnamic acid ester of an isomeric (?) honduro resinol, 

 hondurol, and a divalent alcohol Ci 7 Hi 6 2 (m. p. 42,5°; m. p. of the di- 

 benzoate 38°), as also distyrene. 



Ionone. The Perfumery and Essential Oil Record 2 ) has published three 

 papers on artificial violet oils. They deal principally with the isolation of 

 irone from orris root, the attempts at preparing synthetically pseudo'xononz, 

 ionone and their homologues, and the properties and characteristic deriv- 

 atives of these bodies, as recorded in the publications of Tiemann and 

 Kriiger. They do not contain anything new. The constants quoted for pure 

 a- and /^-ionone fall within the limits observed by us in our own manu- 

 factures. 



Linden^blossom "Schimmel § Co." In the course of the few months 

 during which it has been on the market, this novelty has gained a con- 

 siderable number of friends, and, like our Red rose "Schimmel & Co.", 

 may now be pronounced a first-class success. This new perfume, which 

 is without any competitor of its kind, embodies the result of ten years' 

 unwearied labour, and the agreeable odour of the flower of the linden 

 tree is now at last commercially available for use in perfumery. For 

 many long years chemists working on the subject of artificial scents have 

 vainly cudgelled their brains in endeavours to reproduce synthetically 

 this natural odour. We take advantage of this opportunity earnestly to 

 recommend this specialty, of which we shall be pleased to place free 

 samples at the disposal of perfumers. 



1 ) Report April 1907, 111. 



2 ) Arch, der Pharm. 248 (1910), 420. 



3 ) Perfum. and Essent. Oil Record 1 (1910), 71, 98, 161. 



