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PERFUMES a« COSMETICS THEIR PREPARATION AND MANUFACTURE A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL TREATISE FOR THE USE OF THE PERFUMER AND COSMETIC MANUFACTURER. COVERING THE ORIGIN AND SELECTION OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND OTHER PERFUME MATERIALS, THE COMPOUNDING OF PERFUMES AND THE PERFUMING OF COSMETICS, ETC. BY GEORGE WILLIAM ASKINSON, Dr.Cuem. REVISED WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS BY A CORPS OF EXPERT PRACTICAL PERFUMERS FULLY ILLUSTRATED Fit) tion NEW YORK THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 2 West Forty-rirtu STREET 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922 anp 1915 BY THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1892 BY NORMAN W. HENLEY & CO. PRINTED IN U.S. A. ‘Composition, Electroty ping and Press Work By Publishers Printing Company, New York PREFACE The perfume industry of today is more important than at any time in its long and honored career. Beginning centuries ago, probably in the first dawn of a real civilization, with the prepa- ration of a few odorous gums and woods and their adaptation to the purposes of the toilet, it has gradually expanded until we find it now an industry which touches upon many fields of human en- deavor. The preparation of perfumes, using the word in the sense of products used only as sources of delightful odors, is now supplemented to an extraordinary degree by the manufacture of perfumed substances; that is, products which owe their chief value to other properties but which are perfumed in order that their appeal to the user may be heightened. In this connection might be mentioned such diverse yet related articles as soaps, face powders, cold creams, tooth pastes, talcums, etc. In fact, it may be stated that every toilet requisite which lends itself to the process is now perfumed. Closely related to these, at least as regards the means employed, are the many flavoring extracts and innumerable beverages which owe their distinctive appeals to the sense,of taste to the use of products which are in many cases identical with those used in the compounding of perfumes. Unfortunately the scope of this book does not permit inclusion of a consideration of this latter class of preparations notwith- standing their close relation to the subject in hand. One hears many references to the important perfumery busi- ness and to the science of perfumes, but all too few to the art of perfuming. For it must never be forgotten that in addition to being a business which calls for the usual amount of business acumen and a science of no little complexity, it differs from other businesses and sciences in being as well an art. Perfumes

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