Translated from a German handbook on perfumery and toilet soaps, this practical guide covers the raw materials of the scent trade, natural essential oils and the new artificial aromatics, methods of testing them for purity, and tested formulae for extracts, waters, powders and cosmetics. It was written as a working reference for the perfumer’s laboratory of the 1890s.
A detailed snapshot of the perfume industry as chemistry began to remake it, for historians of scent and cosmetics. Download the free EPUB.