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.

Of Benjamin-water.

A Great many undertake every day to prepare Benjamin-water, and very few succeed in it; they generally fail in one thing, viz. They put too many Drugs in it: As for Example, They imagine that without Litharge it will not whiten the Water, but it is a great Error. Observe exactly what I say in my Re∣ceipts, and you will make it excellently. I only advise you to prepare it in the Summer where the Sun shines, for if you make it in the Winter it will prove dan∣gerous, because if the Bottle breaks, as it happens sometimes, the Spirit of Wine takes fire, and may cause great Damage.