A third 19th century commercial perfume with magical associations is Hoyt's Cologne , which is used among African-American hoodoo practitioners to draw gambling luck . I used to make my own Florida Water and Kananga Water from recipes in commercial formularies, but i find that the Lanman and Kemp products are perfectly satisfactory and the labels are very familiar to users, so i now sell that brand in my shop and online. The container is less ornate, however, being a simple long-necked plastic bottle without embossing on the shoulder or foil wrapping on the neck. The following technical information is presented for the use of readers who wish to try their own hands at commercial perfumery. It is expected that before you begin such a task you familiarize yourself with the terminology, systems of measurement, and methods used in a laboratory.
All perfumes contain alcohol to varying degrees.
Most important perfumes contain 2 to 3 ounces of oils per pint of alcohol. However the amounts of essential oil or concentration is determined solely by taste and price. Toilet waters are just weak perfumes, generally containing 1 to 6 ounces of essential oil per gallon of alcohol. It is possible, of course, to make a good Cologne with very highly rectified and deodorized corn or potato spirits, but the product never equals that made from wine spirits. Possibly the reason for this lies in the fact that the latter always contains a varying amount of oenanthic ether.