§J The Scented (jar den fj£ 



An odoriferous par fume for chambers. 



Take a glasseful of Rose water, Cloves well beaten in 

 pouder, a penny weight : than take the fire panne, and 

 make it reede hote in the fyre, and put thereon of the 

 saied Rose water wyth the sayd pouder of Cloves, making 

 it so consume, by little and little, but the rose water 

 must be muskt, and you shall make a parfume of excellent 

 good odour. A Q ueen > s Delight (1662). 



Rose Pastills to burn. 



Take Benjamin three ounces, storax two ounces, 

 Alexandrine or Damask Rose-buds one ounce ; grind 

 the Roses by themselves, and the rest also : Then take 

 Lignum Aloes, Amber, fine Sugar, Civet, powder of 

 Cypress, half a quarter of a pound ; grind all these well 

 together. Then mix it with gum Tragaganth dissolved 

 in Orange-flowers or Rose-water, and make them up. 



Sir Kenelm Digby. Choice and Experimented 



Receipts (1668). 

 King Edward VPs Perfume. 



Take twelve spoonfuls of right red Rose-water, the 

 weight of six pence in fine powder of Sugar, and boil it on 

 hot Embers and Coals softly, and the house will smell as 

 though it were full of Roses ; but you must burn the 

 sweet Cypress wood before, to take away the gross air. 

 The Queers Closet Opened (1662). 



A plesent and delicate perfume. 



Lay two or three drops of liquid Amber upon a glowing 

 coale, or a peece of Lignum Aloes, Lignum Rhodium or 

 Storax. Sir Hugh Platt. Delights for Ladies (1 594). 

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