^ The Scented Qarden ($£, 



A Perfume to burn. 



To make a good Perfume to burn, take Benjamin one 

 ounce, Storax, Calamint two ounces, of Mastick white, 

 Ambergreece, of each one ounce ; Seeds, Calamus 

 Aromaticus, Cypress wood, of each half an ounce, of 

 Camphire one scruple, Labdanum one ounce ; beat 

 all these to powder, then take of Sallow Charcole six 

 ounces, of liquid Storax two ounces, beat them all with 

 Aqua vitae, and then you shall rowl them into long round 

 Rowls. 



Sir Kenelm Digby. Choice and Experimented 



Receipts (1668). 



To make Perfumes to Burn. 



Take half a pound of Damask Rose-buds (the whites 

 cut off) Benjamin three ounces beaten to powder, half a 

 quarter of an ounce of Musk, and as much of Ambergris, 

 the like of Civet. Beat all these together in a stone- 

 morter. Then put in an ounce of Sugar, and make it up 

 in cakes, and dry them in the Sun, or by the fire, there is 

 no difference in making the Bags, but that they must be 

 red Roses. 



The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened (1669). 



A Perfume against the corruption of the Aire. 



Take red Roses, Spikenard, wood of Aloes, Costus, 

 Rosemary, Masticks, red Saunders, Bdellium, Labdanum, 

 Olibanum, Saffron, of each a dramme and a halfe, Dock 

 roots, Pepper, yellow Sanders of each three drammes, 

 Cardamomes, Cubibes, Camphor, of each halfe a dramme, 



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