Powders and Perfumes

Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 13

Powders and Perfumes

(From Our Correspondent.) Paris. If you admire the Parisian for nothing else, you must hand her the glove for her correct choice of perfumes and the skill with which she applies her powder. This season in Paris has seen many changes in both perfumes and powders. The exotic perfume is as extinct as the dodo, and cream powder is now only to be seen on the faces of the tourists who invade Paris by the score in the late summer months. The chic French dame matches her perfume to her gown, and as fashion is under a Spanish influence just now, so is perfume. So w r e have “I’orange,” which takes one back to Seville on a midsummer night when the air is heavy with the sweet odour of the orange groves that lie behind the town. One unfeeling male told me that another scent reminded him of nights spent in Africa, when he used a similar smell out of a large bottle to keep mosquitoes away! Then for evening dress at the seaside, there is a wonderful innovation, “La Mer.” Sprinkle a few drops on your hair, and even when playing baccarat in the hot room of some casino you will carry the smell of the sea about with you everywhere. “La Mer” is fresh, fragrant, and just like a whiff of salt sea air. It is wonderful, and the greatest of its wonders is that it never grows stale. If it is necessary to match your perfume to your gown in Paris, it is equally necessary to choose your face-powder, your lipstick. and your rouge correctly. For the brunette (in the day hours) banana-colour-ed powder with scarlet lipstick and scarlet rouge. For night-time amethyst powder, framboise lip-stick, and a lihe-coloured rouge. The blonde must choose neige powder when the sun shines, and cherry lip-stick and cherry rouge. But under the glare of electric light blue powder is worn, scarlet lip-stick, and geranium rouge. The red-haired dame uses “rose-ibis” powder in the daytime and green at night, and a cerise lip-stick and rouge with either. The green powder is especially chic, and looks well when the face is framed by a large black hat. With these specially coloured powders go face creams to match, all unscented, so that the perfume chosen to go with the style of your gown will not be in any way obliterated. But take care how you imitate Paris and use coloured powder on your face! For a face coloured green or mauve must be well and carefully done to be an attraction and not an atrocity.