Cologne's _ toilet water industry, which is being so seriously affected by the war, was established ill tho beginning of tho soventeonth century. The inventors of toilet water (eau-de-Co-logne) were Paul Feminis and Maria Clementine, a Catholic nun. They began on a small scale, with few persona employed, whom they did not initiate into the secrots of tho whol process, the last and most important mixture being made by tho inventors themselves. Paul Feminis left the secret with tho Farina family, while the nun bequeathed the secrot to ono Peter Scbnobon, who had boon her assistant for jnauy. years,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 6
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98Untitled Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 6
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