The Toilet of Flora (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 edition. Excerpt: ... put them into a canister. Srtuffis-flavoured with other perfumes in the same way. 3l7-0r Perfume your Snuff by mixing it well with the hands, in a heated iron or brass mortar, besmeared with a few grains of Ambergrise. 318. Snuff after the Maltese FaJInon. Perfume with Ambergrise, in the manner already described, some Snuff previously scented with Orange Flowers. Then grind in a mortar a little Sugar with about ten grains of Civet, and mix by little and little with about a pound of the foregoing Snuff. 319. The Genuine Maltese Snuff. Take Roots of Liquorice, and Roots of the Rose-bush, peel off their outer skin, dry them, powder them, and fist the: powder powder through a fine fieve, then scent them according to your fancy, or in the same manner as French Snuff, adding a little White Wine, Brandy, or a very little Spirit of Wine, and rubbing the Snuff well between your hands. 320. Italian Snuff. Put into a mortar, or other convenient vessel, a quantity of Snuff already scented with some Flower, pour on it a little White Wine, and add, if agreeable, some Essence of Ambergrise, Mufk, or any other Perfume you like best; stir the Snuff and rub it well between your hands. Scent Snuff in this manner with any particular flavour, and put the different scented Snuffs in separate boxes, which are to be marked, to prevent mistakes.: 321. Snuff scented aster the Spanish Manner. Take a lump of double-refined Sugar, rub it in a mortar with twenty grains of Mu/kj Musk; add by little and little a pound of "-' Snuflf, and grind the whole with ten grains of Civet, rubbing it afterwards well between your brands.. Seville Snuff is scented with twenty grains of Vanilloes-only.. Keep your Snuff in canisters closely stopped, to prevent the scent from exhaling....