Poucher's Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps

This revised edition attempts to provide data about raw materials so that not only the history of some compounds can be checked but also so that useful reference can be obtained. It serves as a dictionary of raw materials of perfumery and some cosmetic and toiletry products. For many of the compounds listed several alternatives names are in use, some of which from the chemist's point of view are either inadequate, ambiguous or occasionally actually misleading. In this edition the compounds have been listed under names which are considered to be chemically satisfactory and which, at the same time, should be reasonably familiar to perfumers; they do not necessarily contain full information as to the structure of the compounds and they make free use of widely accepted trivial names. In most of the entries this is associated with a systematic name which defines the chemical structure, while synonyms which are in use, though sometimes chemically unsatisfactory, also are listed.