Perfume of Queen Elizabeth the First"This Perfume is very sweet, and good for the time." Recipe discovered in A Queens Delight, published in London in 1662. This book directly attributes it as a perfume for Queen Elizabeth I, and given the date of printing, we believer it is a genuine recipe that the author perhaps learned from perfumers to the royal court. We have adapted it with further details from Delights for Ladies, published 1644. A sweet. herbal, and utterly unique fragrance

a small hand mirror

Lavender essential oil

Laurel essential oil

published in 1595

500 years old

From the same ingredients

and outdoor reenactors

Place a few drops on a wooden comb

This perfume dated to 1370 is the earliest recorded perfume from Medieval Europe

Blended with French rose clay for a delicate and refreshing beauty treatment

nutmeg oil

278 in the Trotula manuscripts