Essence d’Œillets. [Fr.] Prep. From cinnamon, 3 oz.; cloves, 11⁄4 oz. (both well bruised); rectified spirit, 1 quart; digest for a week. Oil of cloves and spirit of cloves also bear this name in some places.
Essence of O′pium. See Essence Anodyne, No. 1. Black drop and Rousseau’s laudanum have also been sometimes so called.
Essence of O′range. Syn. Essentia aurantii, L. Prep. As ESSENCE OF LEMON.
Essence of Orange Peel. Syn. Essentia corticis aurantii, L. Prep. 1. (Golden.) Fresh yellow rind of orange, 4 oz.; rectified spirit and water, of each 1⁄2 pint; digest for a week, press, filter, and add of sherry wine, 1 quart. A pleasant liqueur.
2. (Saccharated.) See Oleo-saccharum.
Essence d’Orient. [Fr.] A pearly-looking substance, found at the base of the scales of the blay or bleak, a small fish of the genus cyprinus.
Prep. The scales are scraped from the fish into a tub containing water, and after agitation and repose the fluid is poured off, and its place supplied with fresh water, and this in its turn, after agitation and repose, is also poured off. This part of the operation is repeated till the ‘essence’ and scales are perfectly freed from impurities, when the whole is thrown on a sieve, which retains the latter, but allows the former to flow through. After repose for a short time, the essence is obtained as a deposit at the bottom of the vessel.
Obs. Essence d’Orient has a bluish-white and pearly aspect, and is employed to cover the interior of glass bubbles and beads, in imitation of pearls and mother-of-pearl. Its tendency to putrefaction, while in the moist state, may be obviated by the addition of a little liquor of ammonia.
Essence of Patch′ouli. Syn. Essence de patchoulie, Esprit de pouchâ pât [Fr.]. Prep. 1. Indian patchouli (leaves or foliaceous tops), 21⁄2 lb.; rectified spirit, 9 pints; digest for a week; add of water, 1 gall.; oil of lavender (Mitcham), 3 dr.; common salt, 2 lbs.; agitate well together, distil over (rapidly) 1 gallon, and add of essence of musk, 31⁄2 fl. dr. A very fashionable perfume. Essence of patchouli, thus prepared, has been largely used, both at court and by the nobility generally.
2. Patchouli, 3 oz.; rectified spirit, 1 pint; digest a week, press, and filter. A still commoner kind is made with proof spirit.