This was a Vanilla product that was only for sale
to employees within The Upjohn
Company. Don Parfet told me that Dorothy Dalton, a daughter of
W.E.Upjohn, used a lot of vanilla in her cooking but could not
find a good quality source of it in Kalamazoo.
Since The Upjohn Company was already using
vanilla for flavoring in products like Kaopectate, the
material was already in-house. It didn’t take much effort to
formulate and bottle it, starting in 1936. It was 30% vanilla
with a small amount of vanillin. It was a popular product with employees
because batches were made through the 1970s and 80s. It was
discontinued in 1989. Other products made for employees-only
were Hand Lotion and Aspirin Tablets 5gr.
