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Extrait de Millefleurs

Take 4 aromatic vegetable substances. The points grains finest grain musk; finest ambergris, 6 requisite to be attended to are, that the flowers grains; oil of lemon, 6 drachms; oil of laven- be fresh, gathered after the sun has risen and der (English), and oil of cloves, each 4 the dew exhaled, and that sufficient water be drachms; liquid storax (genuine), 1 drachm; used to prevent the flowers being burned, but oil of verbena, oil of pimento and neroli, of not much more than is sufficient for this pursufficient for this pureach 12 drops (minims); rectified spirit, 1 pose. The quantities usually directed are:

Imperial pint; macerate in a warm room, with frequent agitation, for 2 or 3 weeks.

Very fine. The omission of the storax renders it paler, and thus preferable to some persons. Roses, 8 pounds (avoirdupois); water, 2 gallons (Imperial); distill 1 gallon for single, and the same water with 8 pounds of fresh roses for double rose water. The usual quantities of aromatic material required in proportion to