European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes thursday Morch r 196, is photos by Vic Damon sampling of aging Cologne wafer is taken from one of hundreds of barrels at a factory in the famous scent City on the Rhine. Women in White smocks sing As they give final inspection to Cologne bottles. Perfumer Walter Hoenig mixes Basic ingredients for sideline product at Cologne factory. / one trip to an eau do Cologne factory and you come out smelling like a Grapefruit. Or an Orange. Or a Lemon. Oils from Citrus skins Are the basis of the refreshing fragrant water that gets its name from that City on the  s a multimillion Dollar worldwide business for leading firms in scent entered  various perfumed formulas can be traced Back almost 3 centuries to immigrant italian chemists an to monks who getting their noses out of breweries experimented with Citrus oils Flowers herbs an spices to make the bouquets that have since been inhaled internationally. One carthusian Monk protected by a Cologne fam ily during a Napoleonic persecution gave his prise prescription to his benefactors son As a w e d d 1 n present. This family firm today keeps that top secret for Mula divided into three pints in separate safety de posit boxes in three different Banks. Only the head of the family has Access to the boxes. During War time the subterfuge was More intense so hat con purring armies were unable to add the formula to tin i i Booty As uie i Milru Slid do i Emli r of Llie family Fortune this scion of scent is tin sole perfumer allowed to Siux die sly pc  for die or have almost magical properties wonderfully s to ing and refreshing on the Nape of the neck Tho vests the forehead and behind the ears inhaled from  hands it revives and restores  perfume is prize for its Long lasting Fra rain i i contrast to the Short lived bouquet of col Xijiu. Ill addition of fixatives makes the difference during an 18th Century plague doctors thu  themselves by wearing beak like masks Iuni with the aromatic fluid. It was also spa mkt a clothing and around the sick room. Small pots i t u were ignited to purify the air. Queen Victoria is said to have euro i Awe a and to Loine drink