Scented water to keep them cool. Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland in 1511-12 had various scented waters made for him, which consisted of his usage of over a gallon each week for the year. In the 1571 estate inventory of John Brodocke, an apothecary in Southampton, lists 32 types of scented water that he had as some of the items in his shop. In 17th century Constantinople the Venetians and Genoese had apothecary shops that had merchants of scented water including rose water. Scented waters were still being used into the 19th century of the wealthy nobles in Egypt as a
Tubho tea Tubho tea Tubho tea (sometimes spelled tubha), is a traditional herbal tea of the Ivatan people in the Philippines made from dried leaves of the tubho fern. It is one of the rare teas in Filipino cuisine, as most Filipinos traditionally prefer coffee over tea. Tubho tea is made from the tubho fern ("Sphenomeris chinensis biflora"), a subspecies of "Sphenomeris chinensis" found in the northern Philippines, Guam, Hong Kong, and southern Japan. Some authors consider it as a separate species, "Sphenomeris biflora". Tubho tea is not made from fresh fronds of the tubho, instead it is made from mature fronds