Sen-Sen

Sen -Sen is the brand name of an oral perfumes produced among other things, licorice, which is marketed since the late 19th century. The brand achieved such notoriety that it was in English, for a generic name for mouth perfumes and was even included in the Oxford English Dictionary, its origin is, however, no longer known today.

It was developed around 1890 by the perfume dealers TB Dunn & Co. of Rochester, New York by a factory director named Kerschner. In 1911, the recipe was patented. In the same year, the manufacturer of the consortium members Auto Sales Gum and Chocolate Company, an alliance of leading American chewing gum manufacturer which has more than 200,000 gumball machines across the U.S. aufstellte within a short time, so that the brand Sen -Sen was known nationally was. Sen -Sen is made of licorice, acacia resin, starch, sugar and perfumes. It was traded in the form of very small crumbs, which are pushed between the cheek and jaw and melt slowly there; they are due to the small size and long residence almost tasteless.

Sen -Sen was particularly often used to conceal a crazy flag, but this resulted in widespread strategy to that of the well-known smell of Sen -Sen himself was soon associated with alcohol abuse. Literary evidence thereof may be found in Zora Neale Hurston's novel about And Their Eyes Were Watching God, John Dos Passos ' The Big Money or Eugene O'Neill's drama A Moon for the Misbegotten.