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To Scent Tobacco

Fragrance may be imparted to tobacco, by mixing with it, while slightly damp, a little cascarilla, either in very fine shreds or recently powdered; or by a like addition of any of the suboil of cloves, oil of cassia, of each fluid stances noticed under fumigating pastils (see drachm; and beat up the mass with cinnamon No. 1339) of which the odor is appropriate to | the purpose. Cigars may be perfumed by water.

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