Sweet 'Bagy ^Pot-pourri and other ^cipes 



PERFUMES. 



Queen Elizabeth's Perfume. 



Take eight spoonfuls of Compound water, the weight 

 of two pence, a fine powder of Sugar, and boil it on hot 

 Embers and Coals softly, and half an ounce of sweet 

 Marjoram dried in the Sun, the weight of two pence of 

 the powder of Benjamin. This Perfume is very sweet and 

 good for the time. A q^^ DeUgU (l66 ^ 



A very good Perfume to burn. 



Take two Ounces of the Powder of Juniper Wood, 

 one Ounce of Benjamin, one Ounce of Storax, six 

 drops of oil of Limons, as much oil of Cloves, ten grains 

 of Musk, six of Civet, mould them up with a little gum- 

 Dragon steeped in Rosewater, make them in little Cakes 

 and dry them between Rose leaves, your Juniper wood 

 must be well dried, beaten and searced. 



The Queen's Closet Opened (1662). 



To make a Perfume to burn in a Chamber. 



Take Benjamine, Storax and Labdanum, of each a little ; 

 a little damaske powder, orace powder, a little, a little 

 frankincense and mirr, powder of Jniper ; beat all these 

 together to a paste in a hot morter and so make it up in 

 the fashion of great black cloves and so burn them when 

 you please, it's a pleasant smell. 



The Book of Simples (circa 1650). 



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