Nearly a million each year was drained away to the remoter East, to purchase aromatics and jewels for the elaborate toilette of the Roman lady.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The entire plant is used to make a decoction, often combined with aromatics.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
We learn from Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year, 1665," how largely perfumes, aromatics, and essences, were employed to escape contagion at that time.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews