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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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)
Description: An intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-crude terpin hydrate flowing into the large vat where it is filtered and purified. 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...
Show moreAn intermediate step in making synthetic lilac perfume-crude terpin hydrate flowing into the large vat where it is filtered and purified. 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_0649
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: Perfume testing
Date(s): 1948-04-22
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Richie, Robert Yarnall, photographer (photographer)
Description: Laboratory worker testing aromatics
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0657
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Eileen Leonard compares perfumes at 1939 New York World's Fair
Date(s): 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Out of the chemist's laboratory comes fragrance that never knew a flower. Here Miss Eileen Leonard compares manmade perfume with a true floral aroma at the DuPont 'Wonder World of Chemistry' exhibit at the World's Fair. The chemist is explaining how science creates delicate scents from coal tar or vegetable oils.
Collection ID: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file (Accession 2004.268)
Hagley ID: AVD_2004268_P00001536
Collection: DuPont Company External Affairs Department photograph file

Title: Testing perfumes on soap at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
Description: Whether a given perfume is suitable for soap, can only be determined by a series of test in actual soap. This operator has just added about one percent of the perfume under trial to a standard testing soap. This photograph was taken at the perfume plant of the DuPont Company at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0646
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing perfumes on soap at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0644
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Testing perfumes on soap at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0645
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume research at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Research for pleasing perfumes at the New Brunswick, New Jersey laboratory of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. The head of the laboratory, shown the picture, is comparing perfume odors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0650
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume compounds
Date(s): 1944-05-15
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for different perfumes, but also possesses skill and accuracy in blending to the exact proportions specified in the various formulas.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0655
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Perfume testing
Date(s): 1949-07-26
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Laboratory worker working with aromatics
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0658
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs