HOME-MADE PERFUME.
Gather some sweet-smelling petels and spread them on a tray to dry. Rose leaves are very suitable, for in their ease you need not waste the flower; when it is on the point of falling give it a shake, and use the fallen petals. Stocks are very good, too; and one or two sweetsmelling leaves, such as lemonscented verbena, might he bruised and added. When you flncf that the flower petals have lost their surface moisture they will be ready for the next process; but they should pot have become withered. While the petals are drying, pour a little perfectly pure olive oil into' a basin, and having cut some round pieces of cotton wool, immerse them in the oil. The next thing to do is to place the wool, thoroughly saturated with the oil, and the flower petals in alternate layers in a perfectly clean jam jar, sprinkling in a little salt every now and then. When full cover the opening of the jar with a piece of air-tight paper, and put the jar in a very sunny place, and leave it for about a week. At the end- of this time remove the paper and place a piece of muslin over the mouth of the jar. Pour through this the perfume. •
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1748, 3 November 1917, Page 1
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215HOME-MADE PERFUME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1748, 3 November 1917, Page 1
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