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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Powder of Musked Roses.
MUsked Roses being more scarce than common Roses, you must put the same quantity of Powder and of Musked Roses, and let them be well mixt, leaving the Flowers in the said Powder twenty four hours; after what time sift the Flowers, and put fresh ones, and do so three times; you need not to sift them again, for they will not heat. Take care your Box be very close.
