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Rosemary Oil | Rosemary Essential Oil

Rosemary Oil | Rosemary Essential Oil

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£3.26

 

Extract from - 

"The British perfumer: being a collection of choice receipts and observations"

 By Charles Lillie, Colin Mackenzie (ed) 1822

 

"OIL OF ROSEMARY.

Oil of rosemary comes chiefly from Italy, and, by the heat of the climate, it contracts, especially when old, a strong turpentine smell. It is but of little use to perfumers, except in common wash-balls; for, as for what may be wanted in the making of Hungary water, the true English oil of rosemary (which, as well as that of lavender, is highly preferable) ought to be used.

As this oil, also, is liable to great frauds by mixture, so it likewise submits to the same ways of trial, and ought, like oil of lavender, to be used within the year, thinned and distilled with wine spirits for keeping, and always to be kept very closely stopped and cool."

 

 

"A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and ..."

 By James Rennie 1833

 

"Take of the essence of bergamot, lemon-peel, lavender, and orangeflower, of each one ounce ; essence of cinnamon, half an ounce; spirit of rosemary, and of the spirituous water of melisse, of each fifteen ounces; strong alcohol, seven pints and a half. Mix the whole together, and let the mixture stand for the space of a fortnight; after which, introduce it into a glass retort, the body of which is immersed in boiling water contained in a vessel placed over a lamp, while the beak is introduced into a large glass reservoir, well luted. By keeping the water to the boiling point, the mixture in the retort will distil over into the receiver, which should be covered over with wet cloths. In this manner will be obtained pure Eau de Cologne. (dr. A. B. Granville.)

Imitated, by pouring into a bottle containing Jx of spirit of wine, 5y each of essence of bergamot and oil of rosemary, 20 drops of essence of lemon, and 12 drops of essence of neroli, or oil of orange. Cork the bottle well, and seal it with wax, shake it frequently, for the six following days, and then add Jj of balm water. Cork, seal, and shake it again for three or four days, when it will be ready. Care must be taken to mix the ingredients in this order, for if the balm water is added before the others it will spoil it. Adulterated with distilled water, and with alcohol scented with rosemary oil and bergamot essence."

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