Thursday, August 14, 2014

Various Peau d'Espagne Formulas

Peau d'Espagne, or Spanish Skin, is merely highly-perfumed leather.
Take:
  • 1/2 oz oil of rose
  • 1/2 oz neroli
  • 1/2 oz oil of santal
  • 1/4 oz oil of lavender
  • 1/4 oz oil of verbena
  • 1/4 oz oil of bergamot
  • 2 drachms oil of cloves
  • 2 drachms oil of cinnamon


In this mixture, dissolve 2 ounces gum benzoin. In this steep good pieces of waste leather for a day or two, and dry it over a line.

Prepare a paste by rubbing in a mortar, 1 drachm of civet with 1 drachm of grain musk, and enough gum-tragacanth mucilage to give a proper consistence.

The leather is cut up into pieces about 4 inches square; two of these are pasted together with the above paste, placed between 2 pieces of paper, weighted or pressed until dry. It may then be enclosed in silk or satin.

It gives off its odor for years; is much used for perfuming paper, envelopes, etc.; for which purpose 1 or 2 pieces of the perfumed leather, kept in the drawer or desk containing the paper, will impart to it a fine and durable perfume.


Peau d Espagne #2:
  • Birch Tar Oil 1/32 dr 
  • Rose Oil 3/8 dr 
  • Linalyl Acetate 3/8 dr 
  • Ylang Ylang Oil 3/8 dr 
  • Vanillin 3/8 dr 
  • Lavender Oil 1 dr
  • Zibethin Tincture 2 1/2 dr
  • Tolu Tincture 7 dr
  • Orange Flower 2 oz 
  • Rose 4 oz
  • Jasmine 9 1/4 oz

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