FASHIONS IN PERFUMES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 11

FASHIONS IN PERFUMES.

The London Daily Express Bays that the leading perfume makers are working overtime just now in tho manufacture of new scents for the autumn season. This is tho time of year at which the now preparation is put on the market, and tho secret of eaoh particular firm is most jealously guarded until the actual day of sale arrives. Nowadays society demands in scent, as in everything eleo, a constant change, and manufacturers are agreed that the oldfashioned simple perfumes are doomed. There is qUIP a great demand for eau-de-cologno and lavender water, but not as ncent. They are used almost exclusively for toilet waters, to perfume and soften the water in tho daily bath. Among popular perfumes, the violet scents, which were at one time all tho rage, uro now going 1 quite out of fashion. The tcason for this is (hat. the cheaper varieties aro not made from real violots at all, and tho odour weaiy off very quickly after having been Bprinklcd on the handkerchief or dress. The perfume industry has attained Wge dimensions in recent years. More than tiro thousand tons of orange blossoms and nearly two hundred tons of violots aro grown in the South of Franco each year for Iho purpose of scent making. Tho seat j of the rose industry for the production of attar of roses ig Bulgaria, and here ths production amounts to six thousand pounds yearly, at on averag* value of about ono Jjoiiod starliw; bjx ou&cfc