Melt 2 penny-weights of fine ambergris, in a brass mortar, very
gently, stir in quickly, 8 drops of green lemon juice, and the same
of behn-nut oil.
Add, ready powdered with fine loaf-sugar, 12 grains of musk, 12
grains of civet, and 24 grains of residuum from the making of spirit
of ambergris.
Add 1 ounce of spirit of ambergris—mix and incorporate them well, and
add 16 pounds of fine dry hair-powder. Pass the whole, twice, through
a fine hair sieve; then lay it open for three days, in a dry room,
stir it often, that the spirit may entirely evaporate, otherwise it
may turn sour, which, however, will go off by keeping. Bottle and
stop it close.