Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

A most admirable Composition of Perfume.

Take Musk one dram, four Cloves, four ounces of Lavender-seed, Civet one dram and half, Ambergreece half a dram, warm the Pestel and Mortar, then take the Musk, Cloves, Lavender, and about a penny worth of white Sugar, and a glass of eau d'Ange, or Rose-wa∣ter, grind them all in the Mortar, take a handful of this Powder, incorporate them well together, then pass it throw a Searce, with so much of the Powder as shall abate of the force of the Perfume, till it come to your liking, whether three, four, or five pound or more; for the Civet, it must be put at the end of the Pestel, rubbing and grinding the Powder well,

then take six pound of the said Powder, put it by little and little into the Mortar, incor∣porate the Powder and the Civet in braying it well with the Pestel, then pass it again through a hair Cieve, to mix with the other Musk∣powder; for the Ambergreece, it must be well beaten in the Mortar, putting by little and lit∣tle about two pound of the white Powder be∣fore mention'd, or else of the gray, until the Amber be all beaten into it, then pass it a hair Sieve, and mix all three Powders toge∣•…•…

Take a little bag of white Sheeps Leather, well sewed, with bands in the seams, wherein put the Powder and Perfume, to preserve it, mingling the Perfume more or less according as you would have the scent.