The Proper Use of Perfumes.

Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 11 March 1908, Page 74

The Proper Use of Perfumes.

The girl of to-day is a delicate perfumed creation. Her mission is to carry the soent of the flower garden wherever she goes. She makes a study of scents, and manages to make all her belongings smell of her favourite flower or perfume. The lovely rose smell, the violet whiff, the jasmine perfume are all her willing slaves. Tli ere is no use trying to scent one's wardrobe in a day. Scent among clothes is like spice in the cake : it takes days and days for it to ripen and weeks and weeks for it to mature. There are only a few scents that are good in a hurry. Orris is clean and sweet and desirable always, and the ready-made perfumers are always available, but the girl who is going to carry around with her a lot of garments, ail b? dutifully scented, must manage in some other manner. In aJI her jacke-ts are tiny pockets, and in each pocket a sachet bag. The bags are usually made of Japanese paper, and are very tough, yet allow the perfume to readily penetrate the material. Her dress skirts have countless little bags, which hang suspended from narrow ribbons, as one would make up a shower bouquet. The sachets for the dress skirts are all filled with a rose preparation, which the girl should make herself. There is a drop of rose geranium, a grain of musk, and some spirits of cologne. They are all put together on some cotton and enclosed in a piece of cotton sprinkled with orris. It makes a very penetrating scent, such a scent as one would like to have in one's skirts. It is far from being nauseating, it fills the air as one walks, but is not heavy, as if it were on the handkerchief. For perfuming the hair a charming cap has been invented. It is made of either pink or blue taffeta and; lined with soft white silk. It is gathered up like the japs of our greatgrandmothers. The cip is softly wadded I and psrfumed, and leaves the hair delightfully scented for days. It may be worn for a short time in the afternoon, or before going out to a dance in the evening, and the hair will be sufficiently I perfumed. J To scent the skin take a jug of water and put 6ome perfume in it. Then pour J in some boiling water. Let it cool and | use the water for a face bath. Let your , hands soak in it. Perfume your skin. with it. — Chronicle.