[Herbalist] Manual de Mujeres online

[Jenne Heise]

> What is musk water, and how do you make it.

Musk water would probably be distilled alcoholic water using musk, the
secretions from the musk gland under the tail of the musk deer.

> Where does amber perfume come from?  I've been told it is a plant, I've been
> told that fosselized amber is ground and dissolved in alchohal or oil, and
> I've been told that it is ambergris, from whales - but which is true??

Most 'amber perfume' is synthetically created, nowadays. We've discussed
this on the list before, though, and the general consensus is that most
amber 'perfumes' probably are either ambergris or labandum, which are both
sometimes referred to as 'amber'.  Liquid storax, (Liquidamber orientalis)
sometimes is used too.

> and which one do these recipies call for?

That I can't tell you.


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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
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you....  What are the words you do not yet  have?  What are the tyrannies
you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will
sicken and die of  them, still in silence?" -- Audre Lourde