The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 342: Homemade Perfume

After eating, Yun Jiao asked Ah Hu to drive the cart and help her move all the flowers she received to the warehouse here.

She herself busied in the pharmacy all night, distilling the flowers she collected to obtain quite a bit of essential oils and hydrosols.

She labeled each bottle, writing jasmine essential oil, gardenia essential oil and so on.

She also took out various spices from the pharmacy, such as sandalwood, agarwood, clove, patchouli, nard, frankincense, and musk.

Yun Jiao didn’t know how to blend perfumes, but she once flipped through a book on perfumery out of curiosity. The steps were extremely complex and required many chemical materials.

Yun Jiao decided to simplify it and blend a few perfumes and flower dews her own way.

Nowadays, the nobles of the Great Chu Dynasty liked to use incense pills and incense cakes to burn in incense burners, fumigating their clothing and rooms,

Incense pills and incense cakes were made by blending various spices. Few people extracted essences from fresh flowers.

Yun Jiao blended in the pharmacy for quite a while and finally managed to produce two bottles of perfume she was satisfied with.

One had gardenia as the main fragrance with a bit of the sweet scent of roses and the elegance of agarwood.

She dyed this bottle a light red using madder.

The other had jasmine as the main scent, with added nard, clove, and a trace of musk, resulting in a fresh and long-lasting fragrance.

This one was dyed an icy blue using woad.

She planned to give these two perfumes to Lady Yun as a birthday gift, but they still lacked elegant packaging.

She planned to find some on the street tomorrow.

The rest of the hydrosol, she planned to dilute with some distilled water to make flower dew, adding the concentrated mosquito repellent and anti-itch solution she had prepared earlier, thus creating mosquito repellent flower dew.

However, she still needed to think of a nice name.

The next afternoon, Yun Jiao hurriedly went to the street after seeing the patients.

Since the secret recipe theft incident, Lin Shuo felt it wasn’t safe for her to go to the streets alone and insisted on accompanying her.

Yun Jiao already had an idea for the packaging in her mind, she just didn’t know if she could find suitable bottles.

She headed straight for the porcelain shop diagonally opposite, which was on the original site of Qilin Hall.

The shopkeeper of the porcelain shop, Manager Zhou, recognized Yun Jiao since he had just bought medicine from Renxin Hall yesterday.

Seeing her enter, he quickly stood up and warmly asked, "Doctor Gu, what would you like?"

Yun Jiao gestured to him, "I want two small white porcelain bottles."

"This size is good; it should have very thin walls that can show the color inside."

Manager Zhou said, "Bottles like these aren’t available at the moment, but if you need them, I can have a worker make them for you." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Yun Jiao thought for a moment, "There are only ten days. Is it possible to make them in time?"

Manager Zhou hesitated, "A kiln is scheduled for tomorrow; the next batch would be later. I’ll have someone run over and ask the workers to make the bottles tonight, and put them in for firing tomorrow."

"However, with thin porcelain, it is first hard to make the blank, and second easy to explode in firing. I’m not sure if it will succeed."

He smiled again, "Doctor Gu, don’t worry, if the bottles don’t turn out well, I naturally won’t charge you silver."

Hearing this, Yun Jiao felt a bit embarrassed.

She wandered around the shop and ordered a batch of slightly larger porcelain bottles to be used for the mosquito repellent flower dew.

Manager Zhou sent Yun Jiao to the shop door, "Doctor Gu, rest assured, whether it succeeds or not, we’ll know by the day after tomorrow. It won’t delay your matters."

Yun Jiao smiled at him and then headed to the jade shop; she couldn’t put all her hopes in one place.