August Maschmeijer Jr.

August Maschmeijer Jr. (1878 - 1936) was a Dutch organic chemist, perfumier and merchant.

Life and work August Maschmeijer founded Maschmeijer Aromatics (Dutch: Parfumfabriek A. Maschmeijer), a fragrance and flavour company that was in operation between 1900 and 1960 in Amsterdam.

They traded raw materials as well as finished products. Straight from the beginning August Maschmeijer set-up depots in Paris and New York City. Later he traded also from Cologne and Milan. The company was founded as a factory for 'Products of Organic Chemistry', i.e. products for the manufacture of perfumes, toilet soap, confectionery, import and export of essential oils and dyes.

The Dutch company, Maschmeijer Aromatics, permitted its technical know-how to be transferred to the Indian company. They have also permitted the exclusive use of their patent trademark, design, certification marks. processes and modes of production for the manufacture and sale of the said production in India. The Dutch company contributed 49% of the subscribed capital and was given 49% of the shareholding. The remains of the factory in the Netherlands were demolished in the 1990s, while the Indian company still produces fragrances and musks as well as flavours for use in savories and in confectionery, chocolates, milk and related products. Syed Shareef and his sons Syed Mohamed Shajahan and Syed Mohamed Naseer Ahmed currently run the operations of this company in Chennai

Personal life In his spare time, August Maschmeijer was interested in visual arts and financially supported among others the painters Leo Gestel, Piet Wiegman, and Dirk Filarski.