Take half a pound of pulvil powder, made from apple-tree moss, half
an ounce of grey ambergris, thirty grains of musk, and twenty grains
of civet.
Grind the musk and civet with loaf sugar, to a very fine powder; melt
the ambergris, with 6 drops of the oil of behn nuts, over a gentle
fire, in a clean vessel, not brass or copper; add, as it melts, a few
drops of the juice of green lemon, and about 4 drops each of oil of
rhodium and lavender.
When the ambergris is melted, put the above powder into it, stir and
mix it well. Add, by degrees, the powder of apple-moss; and when the
whole is combined, pulverize and sift it through a very fine hair
sieve; what will not pass through, return into the mortar, again
pound it with loaf-sugar, until the whole is reduced to fine powder.