The French perfumer teaching the several ways of extracting the odours of drugs and flowers and making all the compositions of perfumes for powder, wash-balls, essences, oyls, wax, pomatum, paste, Queen of Hungary's Rosa Solis, and other sweet waters ... : also how to colour and scent gloves and fans, together with the secret of cleansing tobacco and perfuming it for all sorts of snuff, Spanish, Roman, &c.
Barbe, Simon.
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Rose-water.
INfuse three Pounds of Roses in two Pints of Water two or three hours, then distil them in the Still as you do the Orange-flowers, observe the same Rules, for they are made after the same manner, you may put less Water, and make it stronger: But as Rose-water is very much used in cleansing Snuff, and Orange-water also, you must distil enough when you use it for that purpose; when you use it for other things you may make it as strong as you will, as I said before.
