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Page 102
Your obedient servant,
A PERFUMER.
[When benzoic acid is prepared by any of the wet processes, it is _free
from the fragrant volatile oil_ which accompanies it when prepared by
sublimation from the resin, and to which oil the acid of commerce owes
its peculiar odor. This fact completely nullifies the above
assertion.--SEPTIMUS PIESSE.]
CHEMISTRY AND PERFUMERY.[Q]
Sir,
If the author of the Letter on Chemistry and Perfumery, published in No.
50 of your Journal, and intended as a reply to mine--though none was
needed--which appeared in No. 49, really be a perfumer, as his signature
implies, he would know that I could not, though ever so inclined,
"confine the term perfumery" to various odoriferous substances, and
exclude scented soaps; because he would be aware that one-third of the
returns of every manufacturing perfumer is derived from perfumed soap. I
do however emphatically exclude from the term perfumery, "groceries,
&c.," the _et c�tera_ meaning, I presume, "confectionery," because
perfumery has to do with one of the senses, SMELLING, while
groceries, &c., are distinguishable by another, TASTE; and had
not our physical faculties clearly made the distinction, commerce and
manufactures would have defined them: I therefore repeat, that the
artificial essences of fruits are not used in perfumery, as stated in
No. 47, from the quoted authorities. If any man can deny this assertion,
let him now do so, "or forever after hold his peace," at least upon
this subject. The "Journal of the Society of Arts" is not a medium of
mere controversy. If a statement be made in error, let truth correct it,
which, if gain-sayed, it should be done, not under the veil of an
anonymous correspondent, but with a name to support the assertion.
Science has to deal with tangible facts and figures, to the political
alone belongs the anonymous ink-spiller.
I am, sir, yours faithfully,
SEPTIMUS PIESSE.
42 Chapel Street, Edgware Road.
[If the word _flavor_ had been used by the various authors who have
written upon this subject, in place of the word _perfume_, the
dissemination of an erroneous idea would have been prevented: the word
perfume, applied to pear-oil, pine-apple oil, &c., implies, and the
general tenor of the remarks of the writers leads the reader to infer,
that these substances are used by perfumers, who not only do not, but
cannot use them in their trade.
But for _flavoring_ nectar, lozenges, sweetmeats, &c., these ethers, or
oils as the writers term them, are extensively used, and quite in
accordance with assertions of Hoffman, Playfair, Fehling, and Bastick.
However, the glorious achievements of modern chemistry have not lost
anything by this misapplication of a trade term.--SEPTIMUS
PIESSE.]
* * * * *
OTTOS FROM PLANTS.
QUANTITIES OF OTTOS, OTHERWISE ESSENTIAL OILS, YIELDED BY VARIOUS
PLANTS.
Pounds Of otto.
Orange-peel, 10 yield about 1 oz.
Dry marjoram herb, 20 " 3 oz.
Fresh " " 100 " 3 oz.
" Peppermint, 100 " 3 to 4 oz.
Dry " 25 " 3 to 4 oz.
" Origanum, 25 " 2 to 3 oz.
" Thyme, 20 " 1 to 1-1/2 oz.
" Calamus, 25 " 3 to 4 oz.
Anise-seed, 25 " 9 to 12 oz.
Caraway, 25 " 16 oz.
Cloves, 1 " 2-1/2 oz.
Cinnamon, 25 " 3 oz.
Cassia, 25 " 3 oz.
Cedar-wood, 28 " 4 oz.
Mace, 2 " 3 oz.
Nutmegs, 2 " 3 to 4 oz.
Fresh balm herb, 60 " 1 to 1-1/2 oz.
Cake of bitter almond, 14 " 1 oz.
Sweet flag root, 112 " 16 oz.
Geranium leaves, 112 " 2 oz.
Lavender flowers, 112 " 30 to 32 oz.
Myrtle leaves, 112 " 5 oz.
Patchouly herb, 112 " 28 oz.
Province rose blossom, 112 " 1-1/2 to 2 drachms.
Rhodium-wood, 112 " 3 to 4 oz.
Santal-wood, 112 " 30 oz.
Vitivert or kus-kus-root, 112 " 15 oz.
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