Essences and Oyls perfumed with Flowers and natural Essences.
THE Essences of Flowers which we use for Hair are not true Essences, and we call them Essences, because they are prepared with Oyl which takes per∣fectly the Odour of Flowers, and only
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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- 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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- Barbe, Simon.
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- 1696.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30869.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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to distinguish them from the common Oyl. The common Oyls are the Oyl of Sweet Lemons, Olive-oyl perfumed with Flowers, which we make use of for Perriwigs. But the Oyl called Ben, whose figure is triangular, and whose Kernel renders an Oyl so fine, that it has no manner of Smell; having no Smell at all of it self, it takes the Smell extreamly well of the Flowers you mix with it, even of the most sweet and weak Smell, and so naturally, that there is no diffe∣rence between the Smell of the Flower, and that of the Oyl: Provided you pre∣pare it well, you'll see in its place how to Perfume them.
To speak now of the Natural Essences, They are true Essences, because they come from the Flower or the Fruit they have the name of. Natural Essences are▪ The Essence of Neroli, called otherwise the Quintescence of Orange-flowers; the Essence of Cedra, called Bergamotte; Es∣sence of Citron; Essence of Orange strong or small: The Essence of Neroli is drawn from the Water of Orange-flowers, and is made of the Fruit which is in the Flower: The Essence of Cedra is produced of the drops you squeeze out
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of the Peels of Citron Bergamotte: Essence of Citron is drawn from the Lemons distilled, and that of Orange from Oranges distilled.
You have now the difference between Essences and Oyls: The Flowers which we may use in our Climate to make Essences and Oyls for Hair and Perri∣wigs, are Jasmin, Orange flowers, Tu∣berose, Jonquil, Musk-roses, because they are most common, and have the strongest Smell, the other Flowers have a Smell too weak: Every body knows the Sun gives the strong Smell to the Flowers, therefore we cannot make use of all sorts of Flowers as in hot Countries.