Delightful Scents and Wonderful Information Awaits You, as we Travel through Time Long Ago.

The Art Of Perfumery was written in 1857 by G. W. Septitmus Piesse, and covers a wide array of fantastic topics, from making your own essential oils to cosmetics and soaps.

Walk through time as we learn about the history of perfumery, and learn techniques such as expression, distillation, macaeration and enfleurage.

We will then cover learn how to make ottos and essential oils from 100 wonderful herbs.

You’ll also find many delightful recipes as well as concise instructions for making the following items of beauty:

Smelling Salts
Bouquets
Nosegays for handkerchiefs
Pleasant smelling perfumes
Dry Perfumes
Sachets
Perfumed Papers
Perfumed Leather
Pastils (incense)
Perfumes for lamps
Scenting and coloring soaps
Emulsines (Soap Substitutes)
Creamy concoctions for the skin
Cold creams
Lip salves
Perfumed oils for use in hair
Temporary dye for mustaches
Hair dyes
Hair removal
Facial powders
Rouges (blush)
Tooth powders
Mouth washes
Hair rinses

We will then cover a wide range of topics such as:

The Manufacture of glycerine

Testing for alcohol in essential oils

Coloring Matters Of Flowers

Improved process for bleaching beeswax

Manufacture of Soap

and much more…..
You’ll learn how to make wonderful smelling perfumes that were used by the ladies of those days, and colorant sticks that were used by gentlemen on their mustaches.

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