CONCERNING ODOURS, 68-69 



from flowers this period is that at which the plants 

 from which they are made are in bloom. 1 



[Compound 2 perfumes are made from spices : 

 they bruise and mix a variety of these and shut them 

 up together in a box. Then after a few days they 

 open the box and take out the spice which seems to 

 have the strongest smell : this treatment is repeated 

 at intervals., so that the smell of no one ingredient 

 may overpower the others. And clothes put away 

 with such perfumes acquire a marvellous fragrance. 



The perfume 3 made of the Egyptian balanos, 

 though it has not much scent of its own, when 

 mixed with others, especially iris-perfume, improves 

 them]. . . .* 



4 The remaining sentences ( 70, 71) seem to be discon- 

 nected scraps, which perhaps do not belong to this treatise 

 at all. The text of them being defective, it seems not worth 

 while to attempt translation. 



