PERFUME SPRAYS REVEAL MODERN TRENDS

Southland Times, Issue 23676, 26 November 1938, Page 16

PERFUME SPRAYS REVEAL MODERN TRENDS

Women have become connoisseurs in the art of perfumery. The. new scent sprays are designed to give a subtle and provocative note of elusive perfume that makes for individual charm. , Modern perfume sprays range from the ' merest “pocket” container to be carried in the handbag to important looking coloured and engraved glass bath scent sprays that make a decorative asset for the bathroom mirror shelf, or in smaller designs, for the dressing table. * Cut crystal or coloured glass, or white glass hand-painted in a modernist design to match the colour of the silk-tasselled bulb, are the usual mediums chosen for these distinctive perfume distributors. Shapes, show the modem tendency in design, low and square, oblong, circular, with a flat base; or acorn shaped, so ae-

signed that when touched quickly the spray resumes an upright position, after the manner of the old-fashioned tumbler toy. These acorn designs are made in deep blue glass with a silver top and in other colours. Scent sprays are included in the latest three-piece sets for the dressing table, complete with a narrow glass or mirror glass tray. These attractive sets are in fine white glass with an engraved design in black, or one of the new colours with a note of silver. They consist of scent spray, powder bowl and perfume bottle. The spray in these sets has the new circular pressure fitting of chromium silver. When the tray is of coloured mirror glass the colour-theme is accented in a charming way in the gleaming lights of the crystal white of the glass set. In the new dressing-table sets of hand brushes, mirror and comb the perfume spray now forms part of the set. It ma be of coloured mirror glass to match the colour of the brush and mirror backs in glass. When the set is one of the delicately tinted enamel and silver designs, the small circular top of the cut glass spray is worked in the same colour and design as the rest of the set, and the tassel and bulb-cover carry on the colour scheme.