Peau d'Espagne, or Spanish Skin, is merely highly-perfumed leather.
Take:
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:
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
