PERFUMES.
Cologne. Deodorized proof spirit or dil. alco hol, 4 pints; oil lemon, 2 drachms; oil rose, 2 minims; oil citronella, 4 minims; oil bergamot, 2 drachms. Rub the oil thoroughly with one ounce of carbonate magnesia, then add alcohol gradually, rubbing the paste until it is very thin, pour in two pints of alcohol, stir well, and pour into a filter ; after most of the liquid has passed, put the remainder of the alcohol into the filter and let it pass through. Another recipe. for an excellent cologne, is as follows: Strong cologne spirits, 1 gallon; oil lemon, 2 drachms; oil ber gamot, 1 ounce; oil lavender flowers, 4 drachms; oil of rose, drachm; oil jasmin, 1 ounce; tine.
musk, 1 drachm. Dissolve the oils and musk; allow the mixture to stand forty-eight hours, and then filter and keep two weeks, well stoppered, before using.
Inexhaustible Smelling Salts. Sal tartar, 3 drachms; mur. ammonia, granulated, 6 drachms; oil neroli, 5 minims; oil lavender flowers, 5 minims; oil rose, 3 minims; spirits ammonia, 15 minims. Put into the pungent a small piece of sponge filling about one-fourth the space, and pour on it a due proportion of the oils; then put in the mixed salts until the bottle is three-fourths full, and pour on the spirits of ammonia in proper proportion and close the bottle.
Volatile Salts for Pungents. Liquor ammon., fort, 1 pint; oil lavender flowers, 1 drachm; oil rosemary, fine, 1 drachm; oil bergamot, JA drachm; oil peppermint, 10 minims. IVIix thor oughly and fill pungents or keep in well stop pered bottle. Another formula is, sesqui-carbon
ate of ammonia, small pieces, 10 ounces; con centrated liq. ammonia, 5 ounces. Put the ses qui-carb. in a wide mouth jar with air-tight stopper, perfume the liquor ammonia to suit and pour over the carbonate, close tightly the lid and place in a cool place; stir with a stiff spatula every other day for a week, and then keep it closed for two weeks, or until it becomes hard, when it is ready for use.
Aromatic Spirit of Vinegar. Acetic acid, No. 8, pure, 8 ounces; camphor, ounce. Dissolve, and add oil lemon, oil lavender flowers, each 2, drachms; oil cassia, oil cloves, drachm each. Thoroughly mix and keep in well stoppered bot tle.
Rose Vinegar. Best red rose leaves, freshly dried, pound; dilute acetic acid, 1 gallon. Macerate for two weeks with frequent stirring and filter, or macerate twenty-four hours and pour off the vinegar ; rub up the leaves with well washed fine sand and pack in percolator and dis place with the vinegar taken from the leaves; to this add oil rose, ten drops. Shake well and filter.
Lavender Vinegar. Lavender flowers, freshly dried, pound; dilute acetic acid, 6 pints. Treat as for rose vinegar, and add to the liquid, before filtering, 2 drachms oil lavender flowers.
Orange Flower Vinegar. Fresh orange leaves, 1 pound; dilute acetic acid, 6 pints. Macerate or displace as above, and add oil neroli, 10 min hns, and filter.