Extract of cassie 8 oz. Extract of orange flower 3½ oz. Tincture of orris root 5½ oz. Essence of rose (triple) 5½ oz. White-wine vinegar 1 qt.
Leaves of lavender, peppermint, rue, rosemary, and cinnamon, of each 3¼ oz. Calamus, mace, nutmeg, of each 150 grains. Camphor ¾ oz. Macerated in alcohol 7 oz. And acetic acid 4¾ lb.
PREVENTIVE VINEGAR (VINAIGRE HYGIÉNIQUE).
Benzoin 2¼ oz. Lavender ¾ oz. Cloves 150 grains. Marjoram ¾ oz. Cinnamon 150 grains. Alcohol 1 qt. White-wine vinegar 2 qts.
Macerate the solids with the alcohol and vinegar.
Cologne water 1 qt. Glacial acetic acid 1¾ oz.
As this vinegar is made by mixing an alcoholic perfume with acetic acid, so all other alcoholic perfumes may be employed for a like purpose; but the quantities must be determined by experiment, for the various aromatics differ in the intensity of their odor.
Glacial acetic acid 14 oz. Acetic ether 1½ oz. Nitrous ether ¾ oz. Water 5 qts.
The water should be added after the ethers have been dissolved in the glacial acetic acid.
Lavender water 4 qts. Rose water 1 pint. Glacial acetic acid ½ lb.
To be stained a bluish color with indigo-carmine.
Orange-flower water 4 qts. Glacial acetic acid 7 oz.
Tincture of benzoin 1½ oz. Tincture of tolu 1½ oz. Oil of bergamot 150 grains. Oil of lemon 150 grains. Oil of neroli 30 grains. Oil of orange peel ½ oz. Oil of lavender 15 grains. Oil of rosemary 15 grains. Tincture of musk 15 grains. Concentrated acetic acid 21 oz. Alcohol 4¾ lb.
Oil of bergamot 30 grains. Oil of lemon 30 grains. Oil of rose 8 drops. Oil of neroli 5 drops. Benzoin 75 grains. Vanillin 15 grains. Concentrated acetic acid ½ oz. Alcohol ½ lb.
Glacial acetic acid 7 oz. Tincture of benzoin 1¾ oz. Tincture of tolu 1¾ oz. Oil of neroli 150 grains. Oil of geranium 150 grains. Water 2 qts.
To be stained with tincture of krameria (rhatany).
As a matter of course, dry perfumes are of greater antiquity than fluid; aromatic substances require merely to be dried in order to retain their fragrance permanently. The oldest civilized people known in history—Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Babylonians, and the Jews, as numerous passages in the Bible prove—used dried portions of plants, leaves, flowers, and resins as perfumes and incense.