Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — Jealously Guarded Secret of Making Eau de Cologne [ARTICLE]

Jealously Guarded Secret of Making Eau de Cologne

Cologne’s toilet water Industry was established at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At that time the city numbered about 50,000 inhabitants, while the present population is 450,000. The inventors of eau de Cologne were Paul Femins and Marla Clementine, Catholic nun. They began on a small scale - with few persons employed, whom they did not initiate into their secret Of the whole process, the last most important mixture being made by J he* inventors themselves. Paul Femlns left the secret with the Farina family, while the nun bequeathed the secret to o one Peter Schaeben, who had been her assistant for many years. *