Ingredients
- eight drops of oil of rose
- a pound of wheat starch pounded fine
- a piece of lace
Directions
1
Take a quarter of a pound of wheat starch pounded fine; sift it through a fine sieve, or a piece of lace; add to it eight drops of oil of rose, oil of lemon thirty drops, oil of bergamot fifteen drops. Rub thoroughly together.
2
The French throw this powder into alcohol, shaking it, letting it settle, then pouring off the alcohol and drying the powder. In that case, the perfume is added lastly.
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann ·
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg