Scented water type of perfume. It was an Egyptian custom then to sprinkle guests with rose water or orange-flower water after dinner just before they were to go home. Even though it is said by scholars that the art of perfumery has it roots in antiquity, the city of Montpellier has self established itself as the birthplace of perfumery. In the 18th century they honored guests of the city with scented water and other 'gifts of fragrance'. There are even perfume manuals that describe Montpellier perfumes as being "a la mode de Montpellier" because of extra ingredients used that enhance their fragrances.
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