Bath: Steep herbs in bathwater or add an infusion or oil of the herbs to the water. Soak. Herb teas were sometimes also used in saunas.

Body Powders: Essential to prevent chafing as well as achieving that fashionably pale look, body and face powders were concocted by mixing powder bases (rice powder, talc, ground orris root, ground calamus root, starch) with various ground spices and herbs: cloves, dried rose petals, lavender.

Conserve: flowers or herbs preserved or jellied in sugar or honey solution.

Decoction: boil herbs (roots or seeds) in water.

Enfleurage: soak flowers and/or bruised herbs in oil to capture essential oils.

Essence or Oil: essential oils from herbs and flowers obtained by various methods including enfleurage, distillation, or soaking in cold water and collecting floating oils.

Incense, Fumitory or Burning Perfume: burn dried herbs and/or flowers, either with flame or by smouldering on a hot rock or hearth. Widely used in worship as well as to kill smells and discourage the spread of illness.

Infusion: soak herbs/spices in hot water.

Ointment: mix herb pieces, and/or oil made by enfleurage, tinctures, essential oils, etc. with an ointment base (beeswax and oil, usually).

Plaster or Poultice: make a paste or mix of the stuff, add hot water, apply to affected part with or without cloth covering.

Pomander: Mix herb and spice bits with resin, wax, and/or clay: form into a ball for smelling unto. Let dry. May be encased in a wooden or metal case. Or, take a piece of fruit, especially citrus, stud it with cloves, and douse it with a powder of mixed, ground herbs.

Soaps: Scented soaps, made by mixing Castile soap with aromatic herbs and waters, seem to have been known at the end of period. Thyme, lavender, and other herbs were used in bathwaters and as oil rubdowns from the time of the Greeks.

Strewing Herbs: Herbs mixed in with floor rushes or on flags to combat odor, fleas, and germs (pestilence) in the air.

Sweet bags and Sachets: little cloth bags or envelopes of dried herbs and flowers, used to keep clothes and linens smelling sweet as well as discourage moths & bugs; very late period: mostly in period, herbs were simply scattered in chests and folded into cloth. Linens might be scented by herbs added to the wash-water, or, when starch became popular, to the starch solution.

Teas: See Infusion: soak herbs/spices in hot water.  

Tincture: soak herbs in alcohol or add herb essences to alcohol (a perfume dilutant, which is non-smelly rubbing alcohol with some additives, is available in herb shops)    

Tussie-Mussie: bouquet of herbs and flowers, originally used to avoid breathing noxious odors and pestilent humors.

Vinegar: Immerse your herb(s) in vinegar for a few weeks or months. The result can be used in cooking, or as a scent or wash. Mint vinegar was recommended as a mouthwash.

Waters: handwashing and perfume as well as medicinal waters were made by mixing herbs with alcohol and distilling. Nowadays we usually do these as tinctures or mix oils with a water and alcohol base.