Sen-Sen
Sen-Sen is the brand name of an oral perfume made from liquorice, among other things, that has been sold since the end of the 19th century. The brand name became so well known that it became the generic name for oral perfumes in English and was even included in the Oxford English Dictionary , but its origin is no longer known today.
It was developed around 1890 by perfume dealers TB Dunn & Co. of Rochester, New York by a factory director named Kerschner. The recipe was patented in 1911. In the same year, the manufacturer became a member of the Autosales Gum and Chocolate Company consortium , an association of the leading American chewing gum manufacturers, which set up more than 200,000 chewing gum machines throughout the USA within a short time, so that the Sen-Sen brand became known nationwide. Sen-Sen consists of liquorice , acacia resin, starch, sugar and perfumes. It was traded in the form of very small crumbs that are pushed between the cheek and jaw and slowly melt there; Due to their small size and long retention time, they are almost tasteless.
Sen-Sen, in particular, was widely used to hide a liquor flag, but this widespread strategy led to the well-known smell of Sen-Sen itself soon becoming associated with alcohol abuse. Literary evidence of this can be found in Zora Neale Hurston's novel And Their Eyes Were Watching God , John Dos Passos ' The Big Money or Eugene O'Neill's drama A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Web links
- Manufacturer's website ( Memento from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry at Old Time Candy