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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Barbe, Simon.
Publication: London :: Printed for Sam. Buckley ...,; 1696.
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Subject terms: Perfumes -- Early works to 1800.
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WARM the Mortar, and melt in it twelve Grains of Amber, and six Grains of Civet, dissolved with some drops of Water; then take a little Cotton dipt in a few drops of Essence of Cloves and Cinnamon, and take up your Perfume with that Cotton; put it all in a little Bladder of Musk very close, and wrap it with a bit of Sweet Skin, sow'd round about, you may cover it with another Stuff if you please.