Crystallized new mown hay-coumarin crystals. This odor synthetically compounded adds a sweet note to many perfumes. Shown here in concentrated form, it occurs naturally in several plants and traces of it present in hay impart to it the peculiar...
Storage section of the E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company laboratory at New Brunswick, New Jersey where essential oils of myriad odors are stored for use in synthetic perfume experiments.
New soap perfume sin the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are...
Whether a given perfume is suitable for soap, can only be determined by a series of test in actual soap. This operator has just added about one percent of the perfume under trial to a standard testing soap. This photograph was taken at the perfume...
Large bottles of terpineol, the chief constituent of synthetic lilac perfume. Reflected in the vessels of crystal clear oil are the large drums of the raw materials for perfume manufacture. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the...
An intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-the distillation of terpineol. The crude terpineol oil is vaporized in a vacuum still, the vapors are purified in a fractionating column, cooled in a condenser and finally the pure terpineol...
An intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-crude terpin hydrate flowing into the large vat where it is filtered and purified. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in...
Research for pleasing perfumes at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The head of the laboratory, shown the picture, is comparing perfume odors.
About two dozen constituents, besides terpineol, combine to make synthetic lilac perfume. Mr. Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, is shown at the scales of his laboratory...
Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, applies the last test to a bottle of perfume-which depends on the olfactory sense and not on formulas, at the New Brunswick, New Jersey factory...
The process by which musk is formed in the body of the musk deer is recapitulated in the making of synthetic musk by the chemist. It is probably that natural musk is formed in the animal by transformation of fats or oils. Here, treated castor oil...
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
