118 REPORT OF SCHIMMEL §& Co. APRIL 1914. 
thetic product have learned to form a better opinion of it, and we were gratified in @ 
hearing, especially from buyers of this class, very favourable reports of the results 
obtained. In many quarters we were assured that the.users did not intend to return 
to the natural oil. 
Rose Schimmel & Co. (Red Rose), Rose Schimmel & Co. (Moss Rose) and 
Rose Schimmel & Co. (Tea Rose). We are able to report most favourably upon 
the practical experience of our customers with these three artificial rose-perfumes 
prepared from a natural basis. They have become almost indispensable adjuncts in 
the preparation of high-class perfumery, and they ate gaining new friends almost daily. 
Unfortunately, the last crop of our rose-plantations at Miltitz has turned out very 
unsatisfactory, and we have therefore had some difficulty in procuring a sufficient 
supply of the natural rose-extract which constitutes the basis of these three perfume- 
substances. Although we had a considerable quantity left over from the season 1912, 
our stocks are now beginning to dwindle seriously. We regard it as our duty to call 
our clients’ attention to this fact, and to urge them to secure their. requirements for 
the next three months, insofar as they have not done so already. Our rose-plantations 
have come well through the winter, which has fortunately been a normal one, and 
therefore, unless later on spring-frosts should set our hopes at naught, we may expect 
a favourable crop in the coming season. : 
Safrol. Our output, which runs into hundreds of thousands of kilos, has continued 
to be in brisk demand, both at home and abroad, and no stocks of any importance 
are accumulating. The camphor-market being unchanged, there is no prospect of any 
alteration in the prices of safrol for some time to come. 
Thymol. Unfortunately, business in thymol has relapsed into the old unhealthy 
conditions. Senseless price-cutting, provoked by the “noble competition” of the 
Hamburg manufacturers is more than ever the order of the day, and the course of 
prices of the raw material has ceased to be of any influence on the market. Ajowan- 
seed is being offered from India at rising, or at any rate at very firm prices, whereas 
the Hamburg makers are practically accepting any bid for thymol that is made to them. 
Fortunately we are not under the necessity of taking part in such unhealthy methods 
of doing business. 
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