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Title: New soap perfumes
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: New soap perfumes in 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 subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other...
Show moreNew soap perfumes in 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 subjected to various experimental conditions to which soap might be exposed in reality and the cakes are observed by the chemist for a period of time, sometimes a year or more, to determine the lasting qualities of the perfume, its effect on color and other elements. The development of synthetic components for perfumes has been of major importance in the soap and cosmetic industries, where perfume are use in some cases to cover up the bad odor of fats, in other to give a pleasing smell. Every cosmetic and soap on the market is perfumed-even the cheapest type of laundry soap. Problems of price and supply are being solved by the chemist and moreover there has been a development of synthetic perfumes, useful in this field, superior to anything made by nature.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0643
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1944-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: 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 of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. For perfume making is both an art and a science. The materials are supplied by he chemist-whether he extracts them from natural sources or creates synthetic components. But the blending calls for the perfumer who...
Show moreTheodore 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 of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. For perfume making is both an art and a science. The materials are supplied by he chemist-whether he extracts them from natural sources or creates synthetic components. But the blending calls for the perfumer who works by inspiration. It takes a great artist to create a rare perfume, for not enough is known of the perfumers work to proceed by scientific formula. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery-there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory means has ever been found of extracting this natural oil. Moreover, there is no known natural extract so sweet or so peculiarly powerful in odor as synthetic lilac. Chemistry converts volatile turpentine into fragrant lilac rivaling natures illusive floral fragrance.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0652
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Aromatics and synthetic perfumes
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0639
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Synthetic musk
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: 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 is being charged into a reaction vessel-one of the intermediate stages between the vegetable oil and Astrotone, the synthetic musk made by DuPont chemists. The greatest of all the achievements of the synthetic chemical industry in perfumery was the...
Show moreThe 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 is being charged into a reaction vessel-one of the intermediate stages between the vegetable oil and Astrotone, the synthetic musk made by DuPont chemists. The greatest of all the achievements of the synthetic chemical industry in perfumery was the development of synthetic musk. Musk is the most important single material in perfumes. If natural musk were freed from extraneous matter, it would be worth $40,000 a pound. Synthetic musk, recently developed in the laboratories of the DuPont company and generally known as Astrotone, is as powerful as the intrinsic essence of natural musk.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0653
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Synthetic lilac perfume
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: 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 outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery- there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory mean has ever been found of extracting this natural oil. Moreover, there is no known natural extract so sweet or so peculiarly powerful in odor...
Show moreLarge 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 outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery- there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory mean has ever been found of extracting this natural oil. Moreover, there is no known natural extract so sweet or so peculiarly powerful in odor as synthetic lilac. Chemistry converts volatile turpentine into fragrant lilac rivaling natural's illusive floral fragrances.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0647
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1942-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: 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 compounding the ingredients of lilac perfume. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery-there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory means has ever been found of extracting this...
Show moreAbout 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 compounding the ingredients of lilac perfume. Until the lilac odor was synthesized-one of the outstanding achievements of the chemical laboratory in perfumery-there was no lilac perfume, for no satisfactory means has ever been found of extracting this natural oil. Moreover, there is no known natural extract so sweet or so peculiarly powerful in odor as synthetic lilac. Chemistry converts volatile turpentine into fragrant lilac rivaling natures illusive floral fragrance.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0651
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Ceramic color testing
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Duryea, Drix (photographer)
Description: In this corner of the service laboratory at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department plant, small tiles are being fired in a high temperature electric furnace to test the ceramic colors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2929
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs