Odors The Chemistry of Perfumery Materials

Abstract

SINCE “Odors Physiology and control’ is probably the first book of its kind to be written, there are no standards for direct comparison ; of the many volumes which have been written on the subject of odour this constitutes the first systematic survey of how to deal with those odours which we do not enjoy. From a purely factual point of view it is possible to divide the book into three distinct sections —the first thirty pages being devoted to the physiology of odour ; thence to page 100 chemistry receives the preponderance of attention ; but the residue of the volume, some three hundred pages, is concerned with the causes, detection and removal, suppression or neutralization of household and industrial odours —those smells which were politely alluded to by our Victorian ancestors as ‘effluvia'. The survey extends to the subjects of offensive trades, air-conditioning, odours as warning agents, the making of odour surveys and the legal aspects of the subject of nuisance by odour. An excellent bibliography is included which covers 123 pages and cites nearly four thousand references. The authors expressly disclaim completeness for this bibliography ; but it still remains by far the most comprehensive assembly of references on this subject that has been published.

Odors

Physiology and Control. By Carey P. McCord and William N. Witheridge. Pp. x + 405. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1949.) 39s.

The Chemistry of Perfumery Materials

By R. W. Moncrieff. Pp vii + 344. (London: united Trade Press, Ltd. 1949.) 30s. net.