Demonstrator calls perfume an everyday beauty aid

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32407, 21 September 1970, Page 6

Demonstrator calls perfume an everyday beauty aid

| Perfume should not be a luxury, but an everyday beauty aid like soap and talcum powder, in i the opinion of Miss Daniele Dansan, a French perfume demonstrator, who is visiting Christchurch.

Miss Dansan, an attractive redhead, is visiting both Christchurch and Wellington to promote the Jean D’Albret perfumes Princesse D’Albret, Ecusson, and Casaque. She always wears one of two perfumes she considers suit her best, even if it is just a few drops of toilet water.

Three different scents is the ideal for any woman. Miss Dansan believes.

“I always have one for summer and one for winter,” she said in Christchurch yesterday. “In winter, one needs a stronger perfume.”

A third selection can be used to provide a personality change, along with a change i of make-up and hairstyle (maybe a wig) for a special I occasion. Because she thinks a woman can be remembered most , by her perfume, Miss Dansan considers that it should be chosen with care. Always it ; should match her personal: y. i and skin type. Bom in Rabat, Morocco, Miss Dansan lived in North ; Africa until she was 18. She spent two years at the West

London College of Commerce, and studied for a time at the University of Madrid. Her first choice of a career was to become an interpreter at the United Nations. She speaks Italian, Spanish, English, French, ana “a little Arabic.”

“But suddenly I became tired of studying, and decided I had to earn some money,” she said. “A friend told me how lovely Colombia was, and so I went there.” That was the start of an attachment to South America, of which she has fond memories. “It is wild, and free, not organised like Western countries. If you feel like singing in the’ street at mid-

night no-one is going to say anything about it.” The necessity of living with a gun nearby, and South America’s poverty, were the only disadvantages of life there.

For- two years. Miss Dansan worked for Bolivian Airlines, then settled in Bogota where she had an interior decorating business. Three years ago, she returned to France—her family lives in a small city out of Paris—and applied for a position with the perfume company. Now she spends most of the year travelling, recuperating at her family home when she returns to France. French by .nationality, and with a slight? charming accent, Miss Dansan says she is not typical of her countrywomen.

“I’m serious, and I like to drink tea,” she said. She also likes to read—poetry and philosophy—and to listen to classical music, play tennis, swim and water-ski, and ride a bicycle. When she was at home recently, a. friend lent her a bicycle. Every day for a month she bicycled in the surrounding countryside. “On a bicycle, I can hear the birds singing, in my car I cannot. After that month, I felt so fit and healthy,” she said. Miss Dansan will spend the week in Christchurch, demonstrating at J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd’s, store.