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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London :: Printed for Sam. Buckley ...,
1696.
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Perfumes -- Early works to 1800.
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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 15, 2024.
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A Treatise of Pomatums.
TAKE what quantity you think fit of the Leaf of Hogs-fat, dip it in Wa∣ter in bits as it comes from the Hog, change the Water every three hours during four days, and you must the two last days work it in Water with a Spoon every time you put new Water to it, then take it out of the Water and drain it well: Melt it over a soft Fire in a new Earthen Pan, stirring it very gently that it do not burn: Being melted, pour your Pomatum in a Bason full of Water, stir∣ring continually the Water and the Po∣matum together with the Spatula till it
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is quite cold and congealed. Afterwards pour out the Water, and continue to beat and stir your Pomatum, and by degrees the Water will all come out. Let the Pomatum rest a while, then do as follows.
Prepare two Pewter Dishes of the same bigness, lay your Pomatum two Inches thick in the Dishes, in one of them strew over the Flowers you design to perfume your Pomatum withal, all over even, and cover it with the other Dish; thus the Flowers will not be squeezed, and will give their Smell to both Dishes.
Let the Flowers lye from Morning till Night, if they are scarce with you, leave them twenty four hours, then take them up with your Pomatum, and stir it a little, spread it again, and lay fresh and new Flowers as before; continue so doing some days Morning and Night, till your Pomatum is of a good and strong Smell, and 'tis done. Keep it in Glasses.
You cannot make a good Pomatum and keep it well, but of Jasmin and Orange-flowers, or of Tuberose, other
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Flowers are too weak to give a Sweet and lasting Odour.
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