267. ESSENCE DE JASMIN.

The flowers are stratified with wool or cotton, impregnated with oil

of behn, or nut oil, in an earthen vessel, closely covered, and kept

for some time in a warm bath; this is repeated with fresh flowers,

until the oil is well scented: the wool, &c. is then put into a

sufficient quantity of spirit of wine, and distilled in _balneum

mariæ_.