Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — A Cheap Cologne Water. [ARTICLE]

A Cheap Cologne Water.

Thoonly perfume which never seem* to offend any and which leaves no unpleasant tang behind it is that of cologne water, which stimulates while it soothes the senses, and suggests a pleasant wholesomeness, instead of any siokish sweetness, as the best of extracts, and essences and bouquets are apt to do. We do not mean, of course, the cheap and common cologne water of the druggists, which, is usually ve/y much worse than none.at all; and wont to leave, afiqr dying, the .smell of burned, sugar where it has been .used often, as it.is made of the poorest spirit, and necessarily without subsequent distillation; without regard to the fact that it requires the strongest proof or rectified spirit to dissolve the combined oils properly where the process of distillation is not used. Indeed, with no trouble at all, any one can make in her own store room a better article of cologne than that which is usually bought, by thoroughly dissolving a fluid dram of the oil of bergamot, orange and rosemary each, with half a dram of naroli and a' pint of rectified spirit. As good as can be. made out of cologne itself, however, is also quite as comfortably prepared at home as at the chemist's—-at so much less than the chemist’s prices that one feels warcanted in using it freely—simply by mixing with one quart of rectified spirit, two fluid drams each of the oils of bergamont and lemon, one of the oils of orange and half as much of that of rosemary, together with three-quSitcrs of a dram of neroli and four drops each of the essences of ambergris and musk. If this is subsequently distilled it makes what may be called a perfect cologne, but it becomes exceedingly fine by being kept tightly stoppered for two or three months to ripen and mellow before use. —Harper's .Bazaar. Oausb and effect are not well balanced. A man with a good cause often make tittie or no effect 1