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.

Title

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.

Author

Barbe, Simon.

Publication

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 November 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• THE TABLE.
• A LIST of the Ingredients of Perfumes.
• Remarks on the Principal Drugs men∣tioned before, to know whether they be Good or no.
  • Of Amber.
  • Of Musk, and Bladders of Musk.
  • Of Civet.
  • Of Benjamin.
  • Of Storax.
  • Of Balm of Peru.
  • Of Macanet.
  • Of Spirit of Wine.
  • Of Starch.
  • Of Soap of Genoa.
• Advertisements concerning the Prin∣cipal Compositions.
  • Of Powders for Hair.
  • Of Wash-balls.
  • Of Benjamin-water.
  • Essences and Oyls perfumed with Flowers and natural Essences.
  • Of Pomatums Perfumed with Flowers.
  • Of Perfumes for the Mouth.
  • Of Sweet-waters.
  • Of Sweet Balls to burn.
  • Of gross Powders put in little Sweet Bags and Toilets.
  • Of Aromatick Herbs.
  • Of Perfumes that we wear about us.
  • Of Preparations to perfume Gloves or Skins.
  • Of Tobacco.
  • The Time to gather Flowers.
  • Receipt of Powders for Hair.
  • Powder of Musked Roses.
  • Powder of Orange-flowers.
  • Powder of Jasmin.
  • Powder of Jonquils.
  • Powder of Ambret.
  • Perfumes to perfume other Powders.
  • Powder cleansed with Brandy.
  • Powder of Violets, or of Iris.
  • Powder of Moss of Oak, called Powder of Cyprus.
  • Powder of Frangipane.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • How to perfume the Powder of Cyprus, or Moss of Oak, as they do at Mont∣pellier.
  • Fine Powder called a la Marechale, fit and very good to make Paste for the Beads of Necklaces.
• Of Wash-balls.
  • How to cleanse Soap.
  • Common Wash-balls.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Wash-balls of Neroly.
  • Wash-balls of Bolognia.
  • Bolognia Wash-balls the best.
  • Wash-balls well perfumed.
  • Another Receipt to perfume Wash-balls.
  • Excellent Benjamin-water.
  • A Receipt to prepare Spunges for the Face.
• A Treatise of Essences and Oyls per∣fumed with Flowers.
  • How to make Essences of Flowers.
  • Essence of Millefleurs.
  • Olive-Oyl perfum'd with Flowers.
  • Oyl of Sweet Almonds perfumed, and a Paste to wash Hands.
  • Essence of Neroly.
  • Essence of Cedra or Bergamote.
  • Essence of strong Orange, or of small Grain.
  • Essence of Citron.
  • A Receipt to prepare Wax for Wiskers.
  • Black Wax.
  • Gray Wax perfum'd.
  • Of another sort.
  • A Treatise of Pomatums.
  • Pomatum good to Refresh the Com∣plexion, and to take off the Redness and Pimples of the Face.
  • Another sort of Pomatum very good for the Face.
  • Another sort of Pomatum, very fine for the Face.
  • Pomatum for the Lips.
  • A Receipt to make a Liquid Paste of Almonds, to wash Hands without Water.
  • Opiate in Powder, to cleanse the Teeth.
  • Another Sort.
  • Another Sort.
  • Receipt to make Liquid Opiate.
• A Treatise of Perfumes▪ good for the Mouth.
  • Essence of Amber.
  • Essence of Hypocras.
  • Cachoo Perfum'd with Amber, very good for the Mouth.
  • Pastils Perfumed good to eat.
  • Excellent Hypocras perfum'd.
  • Rosa Solis, or perfum'd Liquor.
  • Another Liquor perfum'd.
• A Treatise of perfum'd Sweet-waters.
  • Angel▪water boyled.
  • Another sort.
  • Millefleur, or several sorts of Flower-water.
  • Angel-water distill'd in Mare Balneo.
  • Carnation-water.
  • Cinnamon-water.
  • Thyme-water.
  • Orange-flower-water distilled in a cold Still.
  • Rose-water.
  • The Queen of Hungary's Water.
• Receipts to make Pastils to burn.
  • Ordinary Pastils.
  • Pastils of Roses made into Wax-Tapers.
  • Spanish Pastils.
  • Portugal Pastils.
  • A Receipt to dissolve Gum to make the Paste for Pastils.
  • A Receipt to make perfum'd Paste for Beads and Medals.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • A Receipt to prepare the Gums for the said Pastes.
• A Treatise of gross Powders a la Ma∣rechale, and how to use them.
  • Gross Powder a la Marechale.
  • Another sort.
  • Another Sort.
  • A Receipt for sweet Bags.
  • Rose Buds.
  • Orange Flowers dry.
  • Little sweet Bags.
  • Another sort.
  • Sweet Bags to wear about you.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Fine Basket of Ozier Perfumed, to keep Ladies Cloths in.
  • Pockets perfum'd for ladies.
  • Boxes perfum'd for Perriwigs.
  • How to perfume the wrong side of the Tabby.
  • Boxes perfum'd to keep Linnen.
  • To Perfume Toilets.
  • Sweet Toilets as they prepare them at Montpellier.
  • Another Preparation of the same.
  • Perfumes to wear about you.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • Perfumes to burn.
  • Cotton perfum'd.
  • Another sort.
  • Another sort.
  • How to Perfume a Room with Smoak.
  • Another sort.
• A Treatise of Perfumed Skins and Gloves.
  • The manner of Washing Skins for Fans, and Perfuming them with Flowers.
  • How to Wash all sorts of great Skins, and Perfume them.
  • The manner of Preparing and Perfu∣ming Gloves.
  • How to Perfume Gloves or Skins before you Perfume them with Flow∣ers.
  • Perfumes made with Musk.
  • Another sort.
  • Perfume of Ambret.
  • Perfume of Rome.
  • Another sort.
  • Spanish Perfume.
  • Perfumed Gloves and Skins with Amber.
  • Preparation to Oyl Gloves on the wrong side.
  • The Manner of Colouring Skins and Gloves.
• Mixture of Colours.
  • Isabella lively.
  • Isabella Pale.
  • Nut Colour.
  • Light Nut-Colour.
  • Brownish Nut-Colour.
  • Amber Colour.
  • Gold Colour.
  • Flesh Colour.
  • Straw Colour.
  • Brown Colour.
  • Light Brown.
  • Frangipane Colour.
  • Light Frangipane.
  • Olive Colour.
  • Wood Colour.
• Treatise of Snuff.
  • The manner of making Snuff.
  • How to Cleanse Snuff.
  • Another way of Cleansing Snuff.
  • How to Colour Snuff of Yellow or Red Colours.
  • Snuff Perfum'd with Flowers.
  • Another manner of Perfuming Snuff with Flowers.
  • Snuff perfum'd with Buds of Roses.
  • Snuff perfum'd with a great many sorts of Flowers.
  • The manner of making Snuff in Grains of different bigness.
  • Fine Spanish Snuff.
• How to Perfume Snuff in Grains, with Perfumes of different Smells.
  • Cedra or Bergamot Snuff.
  • Snuff of Neroly.
  • Pongibon Snuff.
  • Snuff perfum'd with Musk.
  • Snuff perfum'd with Spanish Perfume.
  • Snuff perfum'd with Perfume of Rome.
  • Snuff perfumed with Perfume of Maltha.
  • Snuff Amber'd.
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