Perfume!

Very Basic Perfume

	1 cup distilled water
	2 cup fresh chopped flowers (lavender, lilac, orange blossoms, or honeysuckle)

Instructions: Line a bowl with cheese cloth and fill with blossoms and water. Leave overnight. Simmer the water until only one teaspoon left. Cool and put in a small bottle.

This perfume will be good for one month. Store it inside a cabinet to keep from light deterioration.

	1 cup distilled water
	2 tablespoons vodka
	2 whole vanilla beans
	5 drops sandalwood essential oil

Instructions: Sterilize a glass jar. Blend water, vodka, and vanilla beans. Cover with airtight lid and steep for one week. Remove beans and add sandalwood EO. Decant into an amber bottle with lid or stopper. Store in a cool dark place.

This perfume will be good for six to eight months. Store it in a cool, dark place.

	1/2 ounce (7 grams) sweet almond oil
	15 drops lavender essential oil
	10 drops sandalwood essential oil

Instructions: Sterilize a small glass perfume bottle. Add all ingredients and mix.

This perfume will be good for six months. Store it inside the bathroom cabinet-out of sunlight. Citrus Splash

	2 cups distilled water
	3 tablespoons vodka
	15 drops sweet orange essential oil
	10 drops Bergamot essential oil (extracted from orange trees)
	zest of one lemon

Instructions: Sterilize a canning jar in boiling water. Allow to dry or dry carefully without touching inside of jar. Put lemon zest in the jar. Pour water and vodka over zest. Stir with a stainless steel spoon. Add essential oils, seal and put in cool, dark place for one week. Swirl contents every other day. strain liquid through cheese cloth or coffee filter. Put perfume water into dark (blue or amber) decorative bottle.

This perfume will be good for a year.

	1 cup distilled water
	2 1/2 tablespoons vodka
	10 drops lavender essential oil
	1/2 cup fresh or dried lavender buds (no stems)

Instructions: Sterilize a canning jar in boiling water. Allow to dry or dry carefully without touching inside of jar. Put lavender buds in jar. Pour water and vodka over buds. Stir with a stainless steel spoon. Add essential oil, seal and put in cool, dark place for one week. Swirl contents every other day. strain liquid through cheese cloth or coffee filter. Put perfume water into dark (blue or amber) decorative bottle.

This perfume will be good for a year. The lavender scent combats insomnia, depression, and headaches.

	lard
	fresh flower petals with desired fragrance
	ethyl alcohol (vodka)

Instructions: Place a thin covering of lard (sold in grocery stores by pound blocks) on a glass plate. Cover lard with flower petals. Store in dark place for 24 hours. Replace petals with fresh ones and repeat process for three days. Remove the petals and melt the lard. Mix with equal part of ethyl alchohol. Pour into a jar and close tightly. Store 15 days, then pour off scented alchohol into atomizer perfume bottle.

The remaining fat is a pomade. Use sparingly.

	olive or almond oil
	fresh flower petals with desired fragrance
	ethyl alcohol (vodka)

Instructions: "The perfume of any flower can be easily obtained if you have an abundance of the blossoms. Pick the blossoms without stems and drop them into a jar half full of olive or almond oil. Let them stand twenty-four hours, and then put them into a coarse cloth and squeeze them dry over a bottle of oil. Add fresh flowers and repeat the operation until the required strength is obtained. Then mix the oil with an equal quantity of pure spirits. Shake the mixture every day for three weeks, and then it may be bottled ready for use."