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.
Of Sweet Balls to burn.
TO compose Pastils good for burning, you must not mix any thing with them, but what is fit to burn and smoak sweetly; therefore if you put in Drugs, they are as good as lost. As for Exam∣ple, Put Civet in them, it will rather stink than smell well; and put a Grain of Civet in the Fire, it will stink, so will the Musk, but burn Amber, &c. it will Smoak a very fragrant Smell.
