Showing posts with label chypre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chypre. Show all posts

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Sachet au Cypre

  • 1 lb ground rosewood
  • 1 lb ground cedarwood
  • 1 lb ground sandalwood
  • 3 drachms otto of rose or otto of rhodium
Mix and sift, then is ready for sale.

The French and English perfumers concoct a great variety of these substances, which being put into silk bags, or ornamental envelopes,find a ready sale, being both good to smell and economical as a means of
imparting an agreeable odor to linen and clothes as they lie in drawers. The following formula shows their composition. Every material is either to be ground in a mill, or powdered in a mortar, and afterwards sifted.