The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
PERFUMES OF THE MORE DELICATE
VARIETIES ARE IN HIGH FAVOR.
Cake n More Nourishing Food Than
Bread-Artistic Furnishings-
Variety in N~eckwear.

a pretty French actress has announced
that she spends fully $500 a year on per-
fumery alone. says the New York Sun.
She laughs at the idea that a woman
can have any individuality or charm
without her distinctive fragrance, herald
ing her presence. lingering in her hair.
IN her garments, her rooms, her carriage,
her note paper. Her own favorite odor
is made for her by a French chemist from
a secret formula and permeates her per-
sonality. 1t is repeated in every essence,
and sachet. and soap, and powder; for the
bath. the skin and even in her nail polish
it asserts itself delicately, but unmistak-
ably.
The prejudice against perfumes has died
a natural death and nowadays fair woman
aims to have the distinctively French
fragrance TO her belongings. Many mod
ern women concoct their own perfumes
at home, while others have them put up
by the chemists. These are usually the
converts from the anti-perfume fad, who
are consoling themselves with the idea
that the homemade varieties have more
true refinement than those of the shops.
But the manufacturers are giving us to-
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exquisite d~elicacy. refreshing and stimu-
lating in their use.
Musk and ~patchouli and frangipanni nave
been replaced by violet in rarest combina-
tons, by orchid suggestions, by Peau d'Es-
payne, sandalwool and cedar. Egyptian
powders nave been experimental with I'M
til they have taken on a modern delicacy,
and refreshing doors are encountered
VrharpVar VVp11-6rDCGnd crowds assem-
BILE. Extracts are used most sparingly
and never on the pocket handkerchief.
which must take its delicate fragrance
not from the tub of our wretched Amer
lean laundreSses, as the anti-perfume
cranks would insist, but from the Sachet
bag. in which it is placed with its COM
paniOnS on coming from the laundry maid.
Sachets, in fact, are the accepted fashion
for modern and up-to-date perfuming
methods. They are made in all forms and
shapes and sizes for use in everything
worn by woman. Gloves, hats, furs, laces.
lingerie, shoes are all placed in their sachet
bags, and for the gowns there are delicate
little pads sewn in the skirt and bodice.
These pads are made with cotton lining,
very thin, plentifully spread with sachet
powder.
The effect of the sachet is entirely differ
ent from that of the old sprinkled extracts.
Toilet waters are more in favor than the
latter, and the face and hands are Dathed
in them in preference to alcohol. Ihey
are added to the bath and give it tonic
fully refreshing.
In fact. there are no more of the cheap
and injurious preparations on the market
that used to be so dangerous for the skin
and the eyes. Those who make up their
lavender and rose water at home may,
perhaps, save a mite of expense, but II
hardly repays the, time that must be given
| to this sort of work. which requires the
delicate perceptions of the chemist.
The main fact about latter-day perfumery
is that the only crime is to vary it. Many
fashionable women have chosen "A dis
tinctive flower, which they always wear,
but there is no unwritten law against the
varying of the blossom as there is against
change i'm a perfume. Once chosen the
latter must be faithfully repeated in every
belonging. book, fan and letter.
Violet, always delicate and beautiful, has
suffered much through its prevalence. Nine
women out of ten chose violet when the
fashion for perfume came back. Newer
taste affects the old Russian leather scent,
orris or some of the new combinations of
delicate doors, some of which are built
upon violet but tempered with some other
scent. All of these are most admirably pre-
pared by the makers nowadays.
Some women have their wardrobeS ana
the drawers of their dressing cases lined
with the wood of sandal, rose or cedar, thus
getting the natural scents. They supple
| ment this with the use of a good toilet
water. Others use the real Russian leather
as a lining to their boxes and closets But
the sachet powders give the most satisfac-
tory results bV far.