Show FAVORITE PERFUMES The Fat of Hogs an Ingredient of the Finest Perfumes The public at least a largo part of the public would feel it a great hardship if only fire different perfumes could bo found in the market I think a majority of the public pub-lic will be surprised to know that there are only five different scents from which all the almost numberless varieties of perfumes per-fumes are made A dealer in American perfumes was tollIng toll-Ing that the French are now but little ahead of us in the manufacture of perfumery per-fumery He said that there are now some commission houses that are not content to supply a great part of the home market but are exporting their specialties He also said that some of the essentials of good perfumes are found in their best state in this country It is a fact said he that there are but flue principal scents that are used by perfumers They are violet rose tuberose tube-rose jasmine and orange flower These perfumes combined with each other and with other minor scents will produce an almost infinite variety of delightful odors For instance jasmine and orange blossom in proper combination make a perfect sweet pea jasmine and tuberose produce hyacinth and lily of the valley is obtained by the blending of violet and tuberose Jockey club h a mixture of all sorts of scents The expert gave ca interesting descrip tion of the manufacture of perfume Ho said that the Hebrews made the best perfume per-fume and imparted their knowledge to I their captors tho Egyptians Their skill increasing as it passed along went to the Greeks the Romans and to the Moors The French got their knowledge from the Moors I and added to it so that they now lead the world in making perfumery You will see Frenchmade perfume said the dealer in almost every market I in the world However their greatest profit in this line is in preparing the ingredients in-gredients for export Here in New York we make a great deal of perfume but all the raw material comes from France This raw material reashes us in the shape of grease extract or pomade This is melted down here with alcohol and made up The lard used in this pomade comes from hogs fed In the acorn groves of Italy The lard from the swill and grainfed domestic do-mestic bog would be too gross But what has hog tat to do with the manufacture of delicate perfume Everything It is used to capture the fleeting odors of the flowers while fresh The process is called inflourage and is an old one Most of the flowers are raised in France and Belgium Large farms are entirely devoted to their culture At the beginning of blooming season women and children gather the blossoms and place them in wooden frames with glass bottoms They are covered with finely clarified grease The grease takes up the odor given out by the flowers It is then melted from off the glass and run into vessels for export You sea that lard is one of the chief ingredients in-gredients of our finest perfumes In this form the perfume reaches this city where the manufacture proper begins All sorts of perfumes are made but most of them are failures and are abandoned in a few months Some of them with a lasting popularity pop-ularity are very valuable to the owners of the formula Are flowers alone used to scent perfumery per-fumery Not at all There are several other scents Musk is the most important and the most expensive You know it comes from the musk deer of the mountains of India China and ThiDot When it is unadulterated un-adulterated it is worth twice its weight in gold The tenuity of its odor is so great that in an area of five feet a grain gives out 57839006 particles without undergoing any appreciable diminution in weight Another expensive ingredient of perfume per-fume is ambergris This comes from the spermaceti whale and is found floating in the water where the whales disport them sclvbs An ounce of this costs about r25 The vanilla bean from Mexico oil of lav endar from England and France patchouly from China and sandal wood from India are all used to make perfume Peppermint Pepper-mint oil is also used and the best in the world comes from Wayne county N Y Long Island furnishes excellent tuberoses and Florida and California large quantities of orange blossoms The dealer said that most of the perfumery per-fumery bottles used are mude is this country except the very fancy ones They are from France and Belgium The manufacture of these bottles gives employment I em-ployment to hunareds of persons Kew York Mail and Express |