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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 74725, member: 25&quot;]Put sea salt and anything in there and in a few months you have a heap of silver chloride. Never let salt near silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have my doubts about Wikipedia saying that smelling salts were used from vinaigrettes. A good whiff of ammonia is unpleasant at all times, but it does have a physiological effect on breathing and the heart to relieve the symptoms of &#039;fainting&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect ammonium carbonate or sal ammoniac were kept in glass smelling salts bottles for the specific use they are effective for. No one would take one out and sniff it for pleasure. Not more than once anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>The elegant silver cases were reserved for alcoholic infusions of pleasantly scented substances which incidentally would not corrode the silver. Since modern perfumes are still mostly alcohol and blended aromatic substances, dropping a bit of Chanel or Guerlain in there should do not harm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Essential oils are just modern witchcraft, mostly, and about as essential as halitosis, so I&#039;d avoid them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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