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.

Spanish Perfume.

GRind upon a Marble Stone eighteen Grains of Civet, with a few Drops of Millefleur-water, lay them by, bruise Gum of Adragant as big as a Small-nut dissolved in Millefleur-water; then mix the Civet and the Gum together very well, pouring more of the same Water, till the whole comes to a quarter of a Pint; Perfume your Gloves with that Composition, and dry them; being dry, rub them, and open them.

Grind one Gros of Musk upon a Mar∣ble, with four or five Drops of Millefleur water; being well mixt put it by; then warm pretty well the little Mortar, and melt two Gros of Amber, with half a Spoonful of Millefleur-water to dilute it; being melted and mixt with that Water, put to it your Musk, and mix them all very well together with the Pestle, pour∣ing over it half a spoonful of Essence of Cloves; pour more of the same Water, and fill your Mortar to the quantity of half a Pint, add to it two Spoonfuls of Gum Arabick-water; when you use that Composition wash it over a Chafing-dish, and Perfume your Gloves or Skins.