106 Report of Schimmel § Co. April/October 1917. 



But the production of raw material is not everything, especially in the manufacture 

 of aromatics. Here, according to Loffl's view, manufacture and technics must be 

 altered, if it has not been done yet, as in some isolated cases. With most of the fine 

 aromatics, the extraction ought to be carried out in the cold with the aid of fat and 

 alcohol, this being the first condition for obtaining really fine, first-rate perfumes equal 

 to the French. After having adopted this method of preparing the intermediate, products, 

 we shall have facilitated considerably the perfumer's work. 



Furthermore, the qualities and ability of the salesmen cannot be overrated. If 

 one means to manufacture first-rate goods, one must sell them in a first-rate manner, 

 a proceeding which Loffl explains by giving several instances. 



The 'production of volatile oils in the Orient. — So much interest being shown just 

 now to everything connected with the Orient, it seems appropriate to tell our readers 

 something about the production of essential oils in Syria. According to A. Ruppin 1 ), 

 the volatile oil of the flowers of Acacia farnesiana has been often prepared in Syria, 

 but with varying success. Factories, in which the odour of said plant, and of others, 

 was concentrated in fats, were founded by a French company on the Carmel, the 

 Jewish colonies of Sichron Jacob and Petach-Tikwah and in Jaffa, but they were 

 abandoned a few years ago. A larger factory (likewise with French capital) near 

 Beyroot carries on the extraction of floral odours and their absorption by means of 

 plates of spermaceti, as well as the preparation of essential oils; it works with success. 

 The fats imbued with odour and the crude essences are sent to Grasse, and there 

 made into perfumes. 



In addition to mimosa oil, the following were prepared: — 



Oil of thyme 2 ), from wild thyme, in various small distilleries in the Judaic moun- 

 tains, e. g. the Jewish colony of Artuf between Jaffa and Jerusalem, in a primitive way. 

 The oil finds a fairly good sale in Germany 3 ). 



Oil of geranium, the manufacture of which was introduced by Baron Rothschild. 

 It is also obtained by a simple distilling process in the Jewish colonies of Rischon le 

 Zion and Petach-Tikwah, where some colonists grow the geranium plant for the purpose. 



Oil of laurel berries 4 ) is prepared from the fruits of the laurel tree near Antiochia 

 and in the South of the vilayet of Aleppo. A trial on a small scale has recently been 

 made in the Jewish colony of Rosch-Pinah, near Safed. The oil is used in the manu- 

 facture of scented soaps in the soap works of Aleppo, Antiochia, and Tripoli. 



Orange-flower water is made in Tripoli and sold to Egypt or to the French per- 

 fumery works at Beyroot. 



Oil of aniseed is produceed in Galilee from the wild anise by means of small 

 transportable stills. The aniseed cultivated near Damascus is partly exported to Europe 

 and partly used in the manufacture of arrack (?). 



A Jewish perfume factory in Jaffa uses the native oils for the production of Eau 

 de Cologne and other scents; a similar factory in Tripoli employs both 'native and 

 European oils, but the main part of the volatile oils distilled is exported to France 

 and Germany. 



In another place 5 ), Ruppin gives some information concerning the importance, of 

 the exports of oranges, lemons, $c, from Syria. 



x ) Seifensieder-Ztg. 44 (1917), 74. — 2 ) Comp. Report October 1911, 88. — 3 ) Presumably this is a 

 confusion with origan oil, which likewise contains phenoles. — 4 ) Reports April 1909, 65; October 1911, 60. — 

 B ) Beihefte zum Tropenpflanzer 16 (1916), 421. 



