SPRING PERFUMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 8

SPRING PERFUMES

MAKE YOUR OWN SCENT. Many people like to store the fragrance of spring by making scents. This is quite easy to do, and these cheap home-made perfumes are just as delicious and lasting as any shopbought article. Violets or lilies-of-the-valley are both good flowers to use, and all that is required are a few glass jars (jam jars will answer the purpose admirably), some layers of cotton wool and a quantity of the best lucca oil. Dry the petals in the sun, scatter a little salt in the bottom of the jars, and lay over it a layer of petals. Cut the cotton wool into rounded pieces to fit into the jar and saturate each piece well in the oil. Then lay a piece over the layer of petals, then more salt, then another layer of petals, and so continue until the jar is full. The pieces of cotton wool should be firmly pressed from time to time to make certain that the whole matter is tightly packed together, and finally a piece of oil paper or parchment should be tied firmly over the top to exclude the air. Place the jars in a sunny window, or in any place where the full rays of the sun will fall upon them, for the more sun they get the more fragrance will the oil draw from the petals. At the end of three months they can be unsealed and the oil drained away through fine muslin into pretty bottles.