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Imitation Lily of the Valley

This much admired perfume is made by mixing together 1/2 pint extract of tuberose, 1 ounce extract of jasmin, 2 ounces extract of orange-flower, 3 ounces extract of vanilla, pint extract of cassia, 1/4 pint extract of rose, and 3 drops attar of almonds. Keep this mixture for a month and then use. pharmacopœias, quantity rather than quality being their object. Manufacturing perfumers, on the contrary, either use an excess of flowers for their finer odoriferous waters, or they preserve only the first and stronger portion of the water that distills over; the remainder being separately collected and used for a second distillation with fresh flowers. In some cases, where a very superior quality is desired, they re-distill the water of the first even only the first half, that passes over. flower Water, and Bean-flower Water, are prepared in the same manner as rose water . (See Nos. 1071 and 1079.)