Old herbals are a source of winter reading pleasure. This lovely "receipt" for fragrance comes from John Parkinson's Paridisi in Sole, published in 1629.

For Perfume: Costmary flower sprays are tyed up with small bundels of lavender Toppes, these being put in the middle oft hem to lye upon the toppes of beds, presses, etc. for the sweet sent and savour it casteth.

Or perhaps you'd like to try making your own herbal tooth powder according to directions offered by The Practical Housewife in 1860:

Take powdered orris-root, half an ounce; powdered charcoal, two ounces; powdered Peruvian bark, one ounce; prepared chalk, half an ounce; oil of bergamot or lavender, twenty drops. Work well in a mortar. This celebrated tooth-powder possesses three essential virtues, giving an odorous breath, cleansing and purifying the gums, and preserving the enamel.