Fragrance Lamp
The fragrance lamp is a catalytic diffusion lamp is really a wonderful lamp that can give fragrance while also providing clean air at the same time. The biggest advantage of using the fragrance lamps is that they can effectively kill about approximately 85% of the bacteria present in a room for even 30 hours after initial operating of the lamp ends.
The lighting up process of a fragrance lamp is very simple, it is done by lighting a stone burner which is located at the tip of the lamp and within few minutes the flame will be extinguished but the heated burner continues to do its work where the catalytic ignition burns up the fuel.
This revolutionary lamp also known as fragrance lamp was first patented in the year 1898 by Maurice Berger in Paris and began to be known as Lampe Berger. In the early part of the 19th century, the Lampe’s have proved themselves to be very useful in helping with hygiene and were effectively began to be used by many hospitals and even mortuaries due to the reason that these fragrance lamps could purify the air, which was its principal attraction point.
At times, the fragrance lamps also used methyl alcohol as the fuel and that produced formaldehyde when combusted and, was highly proficient though, the odor was somewhat bad.
In the year 1927 Maurice Berger sold his company to Jean-Jacques Faillot who then started using ethyl alcohol that smelt like apples when combusted and gradually shifted the Lampe Berger Company into the consumer division and this meant that the fragrance ability became more and more important. This eventually led to Faillot joining hands with many bottle designers and he sold approximately 20,000 lamps every year and, even started exporting them, but the exports were met with lukewarm response.
The sales of fragrance lamps fell drastically during the World War II and Faillot was killed by a German military vehicle in Paris and the company was taken over by his son, Gilbert. But, by the year 1973, the company had become one of the biggest fragrance lamp companies in the world and began producing 80,000 fragrance lamps each year and, these were being exported around the globe and the popularity of these fragrance lamps reached its zenith, through the 1990s, especially in America and then spread slowly in to the eastern as well as to the other parts of the country.
The companies that make fragrance lamps made a huge jump. Even companies situated in China also started manufacturing the fragrance lamps and at the present time, fragrance lamps have become a rage in the high growth oriented segment of the air purification and home fragrance markets around the globe.