The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants

FLUID PHILOCOME. Take 1 ounce of wax to 1 pound of oil. POMMADE HONGROISE. (For the Moustache.) Lead plaster, 1 lb. Acacia huile, 2 oz. Otto of roses, 2 drachms. " cloves, 1 drachm. " almonds, 1 drachm. Color to the tint required with ground amber and sienna in oil; mix the ingredients by first melting the plaster in a vessel in boiling water. Lead plaster is made with oxide of lead boiled with olive oil: it is best to procure it ready made from the wholesale druggists. HARD OR STICK POMATUMS. Purified suet, 1 lb. White wax, 1 lb. Jasmine pomatum, 1/2 lb. Tubereuse pomatum, 1/2 lb. Otto of rose, 1 drachm. ANOTHER FORM,--cheaper. Suet, 1 lb. Wax, 1/2 lb. Otto of bergamot, 1 oz. " cassia, 1 drachm. The above recipes produce WHITE BATONS. BROWN and BLACK BATONS are also in demand. They are made in the same way as the above, but colored with lamp-black or umber ground in oil. Such colors are best purchased ready ground at an artist's colorman's.