Drop twelve drops of genuine oil of rhodium on a lump of loaf-sugar;
grind this well in a glass mortar, and mix it thoroughly with three
pounds of orris powder. This will, in its perfume, have a resemblance
to a well-flavoured violet. If you add more rhodium oil, a rose
perfume, instead of a violet one, will be produced; the orris powder
is a most agreeable perfume, and only requiring to be raised by the
addition of the above quantity of the oil.
Keep this perfume in the same manner as the others. What is sold at
the druggist’s shops is generally adulterated.