A NEW PERFUME

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 27, 24 September 1931, Page 5

A NEW PERFUME

AROMA OF APPLES. The aroma of fresh-picked apples is very delicious, as any one may testify. It is concentrated chiefly in the peel, the juice containing little of it. Peaches and otber fruits have delightful aromas of their own, which, like that of apples, ought to be available for the making of perfumes and colognes. Ghemists of the United States Department of Agriculture have been making experiments along this line (writes a correspondent of the San Francisco Ghronicle), and have produced by distillation an essence of apple peel which should find a ready market with manufacturers of perfumes and scented soaps. The yellow and (bright red varietles.. of apples yield a more agreeable aroma than the green and dark red lcinds. Best are those which have fully ripened in the sunshine on the trees, and are perhaps fresh fallen. For the making of perfumes and the scenting of soaps, the aromas of various fruits are lilcely before long to be available in the form of essences, pprhaps not less esteemed for such purposes than those which flowers yield.

A rare old print, picked up for a song in an Auckland second-hand shop the other day, shows a physician of the period in wig, long coat, kneebreeches and three-cornered hat, entering a sick chamber, the k^iob of his cane press.ed against his nose. The cane was an important item of every doctor's outfit in days of old. The hollow knob of Ivory, silver or gold, contained snuff as a protection against infection. Tohacco is certainly a wonderful disinfectant. Perhaps that is why doctors to-day are generally great smokers. But knowing the deadly nature of nicotine they are careful to select a tohacco as free from the poison as possible. No difficulty about that — in New Zealand, because our tobaceo (unlike the imported which is generally full of nicotine) is toasted in the process of manufacture, and thus rendered safe to smolie to any extent. To toasting, also, it owes its unequalled flavour and incomparable bouquet. There are only four hrands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. 197