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.

Wash-balls of Bolognia.

YOU must take three Bundles of com∣mon Wash-balls of Bolognia, beat them in a Mortar to Crums, then put them in a Bason, pour in the Bason An∣gel-water enough to cover the Paste, let it soak till it is soft, and that will be in two or three days, in the mean time stir it and turn it twice a day, and when all the Water is gone, and the Paste is hard and stiff, beat it a long while, then work it well to take out the Clods; afterwards divide your Paste into two even Cakes, then do this.

Take half a Pint of Angel-water, and the same quantity of Rose-water, put in the little Mortar two gross of Musk, with a little of the Angel-water to dissolve it, beat it, pouring in always of that Water, then strain it through a Linnen Cloth not too fine nor too course; scrape after that with a Spoon the Musk left in the Linnen, and beat it again, pouring a little of the said Water, and continue so doing till the Musk be infused and melted with Angel and Rose-waters, wash the Linnen

with the same Water to cleanse and take away all the Musk: The whole being well mixt, put all the Water in a Glass▪bottle, to use it as you'll see hereafter.

Take one of the said two Cakes of Paste, which you must beat to bits in a Mortar, throw upon it a good handful of Labdanum-powder very fine, half an Ounce of Balm of Peru, a few drops of Essence of Neroly, about half a Pint of the said Water, stir and mix all gently with the Pestle; then beat it all together a long while to mix well the Paste and 'tis done. And as you have done to the first Cake, do the same to the other, and cover them together very close, that they may have time to take the Scent of the Sweets, then your Paste being stiff, role it as you please to make your Wash-balls, and dry them.