PERFUMES

NZ Truth, Issue 1305, 18 December 1930, Page 21

PERFUMES

All the sweet-smelling products and fragrant essences of the earth are used and distilled to make the perfumes of to-day. Musk and lavender, jessamine and amber, violets, roses, lilac — every sweet scent has been captured and condensed to fill the small, stoppered flacons that delight the hearts bf womenkind.

PERFUME is a link with the arts and has played its part and discovered •I vanities of the peoples through the by-products and synthetic sweethistory, and not always was it scorned ness of chemical and mineral exand spurned by the sterner sex. The tracts which go to the making of coreeou3 beaux and artificial odors of bucks and dandies |»»<i»i«i"m<mrm.mmMmmmMHHi l .m 1.m..m..i. l .m..m..i.m l .. ll mn l m..u.i.| fragrant fl owers . of the Georgian era, | pl____* w P av f., mo I Exquisite perbewigged and pow- i reriUme | fumes, each drop of dered and curled, § TH£RE " , t of women | essence almost added further to = I , , „ v . cc priceless have been the i r marvellous I , who do not f knOW h ° W to I discovered, and the toilettes, by the pro- j W - to de . J -per. are ever c, {va Li s ::lrJi*x i ?**~ <£********.»*- i Bsssrs^AsJ even so tar d«.n jU f ragrance mere ly from § i- 6 j t t as the years D.C, = , ° % . . t •. -n = new Kina or seent — , m y V" ,' = the bottle, for it will very = _ rt __ f u;_ w T,*rW a n« there was the cult = „, • n •- j-«- . = sotnetning pernaps mere was me »•«' 5 hkely smell quite different = •. j;/t •„*«!• tliat of perfumes— sweet | fc J app Ued to a handker- 1 w m irtesfsttblv at spices, frankincense | Urf the alcoho[ ha g wdl »™J*bly atand myrrh, were = , * = tract. INames JiKe counted among the I evaporated. I Chanel, d'Orsay, treasures of the I Perfume should always be 1 Roger ant f Gallet, treasures applied to the sk.n and not = H oubigant, Isabey, But it was m 1 to J? ater ' als -. n . „ I Worth, Molyneux, Egypt that this art i Tl ? en ll wl } S r ° w . | sta Vj; 1 Marshall and SnelreSed its height; | £ '^Tu 1 ; 'S' i P° VC "^ Guerl T not content with | l^t much longer. g have be<sn made scenting their per- TtiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiitiititiiiitiiittiiiiiiittiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiuiiMitii^ famous by their sons, this luxurious products, civilization scented their food, their The use and choice of perfume is a drinks and burned incense to the gods, fine art and a subtle expression of m The wealthy Romans also were ex- dividuality — there are a thousand and travagant m its use — both the men and one brands from which to make a selecwomen of the day and aromatic gums tion. were burnt m the, most exclusive house- Indiscriminate application, however) no ](J S- is the stamp of lack To-day, however, of refinement and perfumery has be- good taste. Just the come a science and suggestion is necesnot only the sweet- sary, whether it be scented flowers, the delicate floral woods and herbs s c\e nt s or the are used m the heavier languorous process of manu- perfumes of the facture; chemistry East.