Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-18
THAT SWEET SCENT.
ANNUAL OUTLAY OF NEW YORK
FOR FINE ODORS.
The Principal Consumers Arc
WOmcn-Divcrs Ways i'm Which
the Sweet Scents are Used
American Make Rivals the For.
cign Product.

American Make Rivals the For.
risn Product.
y. Y. Herald.
One million dollars is spent in New
York every year for perfume. Ol
course its a lot OF money to futter
away from lace meucheirs up into the
smoke laden atmosphere of this big
city, and thus perish untimely. It's a
good many round, hard pieces of silver
to breathe from my lady's charming
presence as she fits past the amiable
caryatids of the cigar stands in her
walks through the fashionable streets.
Nevertheless, those hard dollars are
cheerfully taken out of dainty purses
and straightway converted into some
thing that-p'fI!-is gone. Quite a
little fortune, isn't it, to put into
something whose tangible form is nil
"A thing you cannot even see? But
it is invested gladly, and no one mur.
murs or repines over it.
New York never could do anything
by halves, and so this practical city
goes proudly on its way, shifting up its
respectable nose that annual million,
never guessing the amount OF cost OF
the medium that is titillating its oil.
factor nerve and then floating off into
clrcumambient space where perfumers
cease to manufacture and the con-
sumner is at rest.
Who does all this buying? Who is
it rushes forth and "blows" million
dollars on air? OF course, the wo-
men. Oh, of course, But the men
too, if you must know one of their
weaknesses. Though, in justice be it
said, they generally buy it for the
Christmas girl and send it up to her
house in forms that would whecdle a
miser out OF coin.
Undoubtedly women put into cir
culation this reckless million, but two
thirds Of it only is her direct response
bility. The other third may be di-
vided equally between the unhappy
men and their annual holiday pre-
dicament-what to buy for presents.
In order not to strain the mind too
far, the perfume bottle, with its load
OF ephemeral sweets, has rushed to the
front. So it is small wonder that the
million is dropped.
The poor little odor-laden flowers
from which all this perfumery is made
run somewhere up into the billion
billions, and no record is kept of their
poor little lives. For the beautiful
things are raised, culled and marketed
into odors rs elusive as fame, without
n thought for their pathetic sacri-
fees. Like the drops of water and
grains of sand they go to the making
OF vast watts of fashionable brands OF
perfume, and their history is lost in
the evolution.
The bath is responsible for II great
deal of the liquid luxury, for into that
delightful part of the daily toilet goes
many quart of the finest and most
subtle odors known to the art. In
fact, so large has become the demand
for these particular forms of perfume
that the material is put up for sale in
four-quart bottles in some cases.
The handkerchief is kept supplied
by more costly perfumes, of course
but no more perfect in make up
Their boxes, down lined and satin
covered, are more fair to look upon,
but no extra claim can he made in
their behalf for intrinsic charm. In
some cases the handkerchiefs are not
supplied from liquid perfumes in
bottles, but the powdered sachet is
used to scent the bureau drawer night
and day.
Silken pads filled with the odor de-
sired are sometimes sewed into party
and opera gowns, in the interlining, to
forever form part of the dainty pres
ence of the owner.
From foreign and domestic fabrics
comes this delightful commodity, and
American dealers are beginning to
rival, ii not ovcrrun, their foreign
competitors in the line. The duties
on foreign imports make the incom-
ing supply not only more expensive,
but the home products are constantly
gaining in exquisitiveness and make
up.
Musk forms the basis of many of the
stronger and cheaper perfumes, and it
is the part that outlives the finer and
purer qualities OF the combination.
long after the clover scent or the lily
scents have gone, the coarse animal
fat remains. The finer grades OF per-
fume are not adulterated with this
long lived product, but flower ex-
tracts are used, and many, many times
their original strength is employed in
a single instance to produce the de-
sired effect in lasting quality.
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