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positively that even now their expenses are not covered. There is 
such a competition in the purchase of the flowers, that the prices are 
driven up beyond all limits, and the factories will be forced to transfer 
the distillation to the interior of the island, so as to escape from the 
conditions which prevail in Manila. On the other hand, the enormous 
prices paid for the flowers may induce the producers to enlarge the 
plantations, which would sooner or later lead to an increased supply 
of flower-material. We have received the most binding promises from 
our friends, that, as soon as this drop in the values takes place, the 
prices will be reduced as far as possible. But for the present this 
is out of the question, for there is everywhere a lack of really fine 
qualities, and the demand is so large, that we could easily dispose of 
double the quantity of the Sartorius brand, of which we have as 
hitherto the sole rights of sale. Our importation during the year 1902 
amounted to 49 cases = 250 kilos and 800 grams. 
Ylang-YlangOil, ^^Schimmel& Co. "(German PatentNo.142 859). 
The favourable state of affairs of the natural flower - distillate has 
promoted the sale of our synthetic product, and has helped to intro- 
duce it into several perfumery-factories. When once it is introduced, 
it acquires a permanent place, for by the improvements w^hich it has 
constantly undergone by the discovery of new constituents of the natural 
oil, it has approached the latter so closely in point of quality, that it 
can only be distinguished with difficulty from the finest brands. At 
the present moment it requires already an expert knowledge to detect 
any difference, and it is really astonishing, in view of the enormous 
difference in the prices, that here and there clients still hesitate to 
adopt the artificial oil. 
In any case, it should now no longer be judged by previous trials, 
but new comparisons should be made in order to obtain a correct idea 
of the quality and fineness of our present product. For since its 
introduction we have detected a whole series of the most important 
constituents, which, added in the proper proportion, impart to the 
artificial oil in a constantly higher degree the stamp of genuineness 
and truth to nature. 
When in the year 1895 we undertook the examination of ylang- 
ylang oil, only the following bodies were known as constituents of this 
oil: linalol, geraniol, p-cresol methyl ether, acetic acid, 
and benzoic acid in the form of esters^). 
It was, of course, impossible to imitate ylang-ylang oil artificially 
with these bodies alone, and the further we advanced with our work, 
the clearer it became, that ylang-ylang oil belongs to that class of oils. 
'} Compt. rend. 76 (1873), 1482; Reycliler, Bull. Soc. chim. III. 11 (1894), 
407, 576, 1045; 13 (1895), 140- 
