Schimmel & Co.

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It grew roses at Miltitz from Bulgarian bushes brought in 1888 and distilled their oil; it made heliotropin from 1879. The firm commissioned Gildemeister and Hoffmann’s The Volatile Oils, one of the sources read here.

The record

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Name

Schimmel & Co.

documented

caused the firm of Schimmel & Co. of Leipzig to commission the authors

GILD1900 · E · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Kind

aroma-chemical company (also producer of naturals)

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

1829 (year)

documented

die aus der 1829 gegründeten Firma Spahn & Büttner, später Spahn & Schimmel, hervorgegangen war

NDB-FRITZSCHE · Walter Greiling · read 2026-10-08

founded as Spahn & Büttner, later Spahn & Schimmel

confidence A

Founders

• Ernst Ludwig Spahn, druggist
  documented

  Ernst Ludwig Spahn in eine Fabrik ätherischer Öle umgewandelt

  NDB-FRITZSCHE · Walter Greiling · read 2026-10-08

  Louis Schimmel and his brother turned Spahn’s drug business into an essential-oil factory between 1839 and 1854

  confidence A

Places

• Leipzig (founded in)
  documented

  caused the firm of Schimmel & Co. of Leipzig to commission the authors

  GILD1900 · E · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• Miltitz near Leipzig (works moved there in 1901) (works)
  documented

  1901 wurde die Betriebsstätte hinaus nach Miltitz bei Leipzig verlegt

  NDB-FRITZSCHE · Walter Greiling · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Documented work

• rose otto (rose oil; Bulgarsko rozovo maslo, PGI) · rose oil distilled at Miltitz from rose bushes brought from Bulgaria in 1888
  documented

  In 1888 the firm obtained a considerable number of rose bushes from Bulgaria

  GILD1900 · E · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• heliotropin, made from 1879
  documented

  la maison Schimmel, dès 1879, commença la fabrication de l’Héliotropine.

  PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• a report on volatile oils, published from January 1877
  documented

  Since January 1877 the firm of Schimmel & Co., Leipzig, has published a report on volatile oils

  GILD1900 · E · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

What it became

• acquired by Hermann Traugott Fritzsche (1854)
  documented

  Sein Vater hatte 1854 die chemische Fabrik Schimmel & Co. in Leipzig erworben

  NDB-FRITZSCHE · Walter Greiling · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

• acquired by Bell Flavors & Fragrances (1993; Bell’s own account)
  documented

  With its acquisition of Schimmel & Co. in 1993

  BELL-SCHIMMEL · Bell Flavors & Fragrances (successor at Leipzig-Miltitz) · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Today

acquired in 1993 by Bell Flavors & Fragrances, whose own history tells it (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

With its acquisition of Schimmel & Co. in 1993

BELL-SCHIMMEL · Bell Flavors & Fragrances (successor at Leipzig-Miltitz) · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata

Q2235962

documented

"qid": "Q2235962"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Schimmel & Co.)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• Miltitz: Gildemeister and Hoffmann (1900) already describe the firm’s roses grown near Miltitz; the Neue Deutsche Biographie dates the move of the works there to 1901. Both can hold: the plantation first, the works later. (GILD1900, NDB-FRITZSCHE)

Sources

1. BELL-SCHIMMEL · Bell Flavors & Fragrances (successor at Leipzig-Miltitz). “The Schimmel Company”, the company’s own account. bellff.com/about/the-schimmel-company/ · read 2026-10-08 · all rights reserved; no reuse licence (quoted, not reproduced)
2. GILD1900 · E. Gildemeister and Fr. Hoffmann; tr. Edward Kremers. “The Volatile Oils”. Milwaukee: Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., 1900 (Internet Archive, Harold B. Lee Library scan). archive.org/details/volatileoils00gild · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (the Internet Archive record gives no rights statement; published 1900) (quoted, not reproduced)
3. NDB-FRITZSCHE · Walter Greiling. “Fritzsche, Hermann Traugott”. Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 (1961), p. 636 f. — Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz17707.html · read 2026-10-08 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (the Neue Deutsche Biographie’s notice for its articles) (quoted, not reproduced)
4. PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation. Paris: La Revue des marques de la parfumerie et de la savonnerie, 1925 (the houses’ own notices, with essays on the trade). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) copy, Internet Archive item BIUSante_pharma_res008536. archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res008536 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence ouverte / Open licence Etalab (the rights statement of the BIU Santé digitisation, as the Internet Archive item states it)
5. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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