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. / done into English from the original printed at Paris.

Sweet Toilets as they prepare them at Montpellier.

TAKE new Linnen Cloth very strong, not too thick, cut it according to your Toilets, dip them and wash them in several Waters, then lay them in Angel∣water all night, dry them well, and per∣fume them thus.

Beat in fine Powder, and pass it through a hair Sieve, two Pounds of Iris, a Pound of Campane-root, two Ounces of Wood of Roses, and four Ounces of Sendal-Citrain, one Ounce of Calamus, two Ounces of Souchet, half an Ounce of Cinnamon, two Gros of Cloves, and half an Ounce of Labdanum, then mix them all together, put them in a Mortar, and pour over some Gum-Adragant dissolved with Angel-water; the Gum must be very thin, put Water enough that the Paste be fine and liquid; rub your Toilets with that Paste on both sides as hard as you can, rub them even, then let them dry, being almost dry, take a Spunge dipt in Angel-water, rub your Toilets with it to make them smooth, let them dry again and they are done.

When they are dry, fold them as you will have them▪ and keep them between two Cloths.