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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: The true perfume [1898], The true perfume : a brief sketch of the Perfume Industry, from the growing of the flowers to the bottling of the odor, together with helpful and suggestive hints in regard to the toilet care of the hair, care of the teeth, and proper lotions to use, etc.
Date(s): 1898
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (associated name)
Hagley ID: CPCCat_1898
Collection: Avon Products

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: Synthetic perfume storage
Date(s): 1942-10-16
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Storage section of the E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company laboratory at New Brunswick, New Jersey where essential oils of myriad odors are stored for use in synthetic perfume experiments.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0641
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical lab testing perfumes
Date(s): 1942-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William M., 1894-1968 (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0654
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Gifts by Avon : a family tradition since 1886 [1948]
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (associated name)
Description: One in a series of annual Avon Christmas catalogs.
Hagley ID: avon_xmas_20110210_1948
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Report of specially denatured alcohol received and used on manufacturer's premises of California Perfume Company, Inc., Suffern, N.Y.
Date(s): 1928-09-02
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (associated name)
Description: Paperwork for alcohol permits during an era of prohibition that allowed for the manufacture of fragrance and cosmetic products. Includes a letter from from Federal Prohibition Administrator, Maurice Campbell.
Hagley ID: AlcoholPermit_20101118_192809
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Report of specially denatured alcohol received and used on manufacturer's premises of California Perfume Company, Inc., Suffern, N.Y.
Date(s): 1928-01-02
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (associated name)
Description: Paperwork for alcohol permits during an era of prohibition that allowed for the manufacture of fragrance and cosmetic products.
Hagley ID: AlcoholPermit_20101118_192801
Collection: Avon Products

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: Perfume for rubber
Date(s): 1948-06
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Aromatic chemist sniffs a sample. If suitable deodorant is added in right amount, odor of rubber will be masked.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0656
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Avon in Morton Grove, Ill. [1964]
Date(s): 1964
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (associated name)
Description: Distributed to visitors of the Avon Morton Grove branch in Illinois.
Hagley ID: Avon_MortonGrvBranch_20101124_1964
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Patent for Golden Promise bottles
Date(s): 1940-03-12
Contributor(s): Higgins, Frank Earl (designer), Avon Products, Inc. (associated name)
Description: U.S. Patent 119,387
Hagley ID: BottlePatent_20101122_19400312
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Perfume bottles
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_03_B_01B_04
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: California Perfume Company catalog [1896]
Date(s): 1896
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (associated name)
Hagley ID: CPCCat_1896
Collection: Avon Products

Title: The CPC book [1921], The CPC book : briefly and concisely describing the CPC line of perfumes, toilet waters, sachet powders, toilet preparations, soaps, dentifrices, flavorings and household specialties
Date(s): 1921
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (author)
Description: Briefly and concisely descrives the CPC line of perfumes, toilet waters, sachet powders, toilet preperations, soaps, dentrifices, flavorings, and household specialties.
Hagley ID: CPCCat_1921
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Avon's modern shopper [1941]
Date(s): 1941
Contributor(s): California Perfume Company (associated name)
Hagley ID: AvonCat_1941
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Synthetic lilac perfume
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-the distillation of terpineol. The crude terpineol oil is vaporized in a vacuum still, the vapors are purified in a fractionating column, cooled in a condenser and finally the pure terpineol flows into to the large glass bottles. 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 moreAn intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-the distillation of terpineol. The crude terpineol oil is vaporized in a vacuum still, the vapors are purified in a fractionating column, cooled in a condenser and finally the pure terpineol flows into to the large glass bottles. 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_0648
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Patent for California Perfume Company bottles
Date(s): 1937-11-23
Contributor(s): Higgins, Frank Earl (designer), California Perfume Company (associated name)
Description: U.S. Patent 103,050
Hagley ID: BottlePatent_20101122_19370202
Collection: Avon Products

Title: For you and your home [1929]
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (associated name)
Hagley ID: CPCCat_1929
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Processing materials
Date(s): 1937-03
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Processing a synthetic raw material used in perfuming soaps, at the New Brunswick, New Jersey plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0642
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: For you and your home [1932]
Date(s): 1932
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (associated name)
Hagley ID: AvonCat_1932
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Crystallized new mown hay-coumarin crystals for use in synthetic perfumes
Date(s): 1937-09
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This odor synthetically compounded adds a sweet note to many perfumes. Shown here in concentrated form, it occurs naturally in several plants and traces of it present in hay impart to it the peculiar scent known as new mown hay. Scene at the New Brunswick, New Jersey factory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0640
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Information bulletin - Management changes [1981]
Date(s): 1981-10-28
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (author)
Description: Memorandum from Chairman of the Board, D.W. Mitchell announcing management changes for Avon in Africa and Europe.
Hagley ID: AvonInfoBulletin_20101118_19811028
Collection: Avon Products

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: Information Bulletin - Avon beauty salons [1971]
Date(s): 1971
Contributor(s): Avon Products, Inc. (author)
Description: Overall operations view of Avon Beauty Salons, Inc.
Hagley ID: Salon_Oper_20101203_19710326
Collection: Avon Products

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