Perfume Making in Grasse France
Book Details
Author(s)
Jane Rosamond White
Publisher
history-bytes
ISBN / ASIN
B007SHAVKC
ISBN-13
978B007SHAVK5
Sales Rank
#1,998,877
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Kindle reprint of a vintage magazine article originally published in 1908. Contains 14 Kindle pages, with 4 illustrations.
excerpt -
"In summer and at harvest time, the children, as well as the women, young and old, find a more. delightful occupation in the fields. In peasant caps, or wide Âbrimmed hats, one sees them with baskets beside them gathering violets under the shade of the woodland trees, or out on the sunny terraces filling their aprons with tuberoses or cassia buds. Such baskets full of flowers we saw brought in and heaped up on the floors before us, each short stemmed blossom perfectly fresh and fragrant.
The process of manufacture is much the same for all perfumes except those made from rose or orange petals. Glass sheets, held by frames a few inches apart, are smeared rather thickly with lard, and between these sheets the freshly picked blossoms are scattered, touching the frames but not being pressed by them. In one day the oil of the flowers exudes, and the lard absorbs the precious drops. Before the grease is fully saturated the flowers are changed many times, the numÂber depending upon the amount of oil the flowers contain.
excerpt -
"In summer and at harvest time, the children, as well as the women, young and old, find a more. delightful occupation in the fields. In peasant caps, or wide Âbrimmed hats, one sees them with baskets beside them gathering violets under the shade of the woodland trees, or out on the sunny terraces filling their aprons with tuberoses or cassia buds. Such baskets full of flowers we saw brought in and heaped up on the floors before us, each short stemmed blossom perfectly fresh and fragrant.
The process of manufacture is much the same for all perfumes except those made from rose or orange petals. Glass sheets, held by frames a few inches apart, are smeared rather thickly with lard, and between these sheets the freshly picked blossoms are scattered, touching the frames but not being pressed by them. In one day the oil of the flowers exudes, and the lard absorbs the precious drops. Before the grease is fully saturated the flowers are changed many times, the numÂber depending upon the amount of oil the flowers contain.
