FLOWER PETAL PERFUMES
Making one’s own perfumes is a very interesting and simple hobby. Flowers such as roses, violets, and lavender, which are fairly strongly scented, are best to use, and should be gathered in the early morning, when their scent is at its best, says an exchange.
Take a clean, dry glass jar, scatter a little salt at the bottom, and over this place a layer of petals which have been thoroughly dried. Cut a fairly thin piece of v/adding into a round which will fit into the jar, and saturate it in the best lucca oil. Lay this over the petals, and more wadding, till the jar is full. Make sure that it is very tightly packed, and seal it carefully. Place this jar on a sunny shelf, or in any place where the full rays of the sun fall on it. At the end of three weeks it can be unsealed and the oil drained away through a piece of fine muslin fastened over the mouth. While doing this the wadding should be firmly pressed with a spoon, so as to obtain every possible drop of perfume out of it.
If blended perfumes are liked, rose petals arid lavender go well together, or violets and rosemary.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1940, Page 5
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