Perfumes
Sir, — While respecting David Bath’s reply (December 21) I ask him to search for the word “modern” in my letter relating to a few “exclusive” perfume fixatives. It is only in the last vear that I have become vitally aware of the abuses of animals for the “glamour” of women. May I quote the words Of a director of a noted perfume company: “We don’t usually like to admit it but it’s one of those ancient techniques invented. The cats’ heads are put into a sort of torture chamber,
their hindquarters whipped, the cats get mad . . . good heavens, a Frenchman wouldn’t whip cats. . . we just buy the stuff in bottles. Don’t ask me how many whipped cats go into a year’s output. 1 wouldn’t dare hazard a guess.” The director further added; “Musk from Tibetan deer is getting mighty pricey lately.” To Mr Bath, I am 30 years behind the times? I could give him a twinkling smile without the append ages of unnatural aromas. — Yours, etc., NATALIE TAYLOR. December 22, 1979.
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