The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-24
SCENTS NOT A LUXURY ONLY.
May Affect Health and Reveal the
Users Character.
New York SUI


No artifice augments woman = witchery
more than the subtle, faint fragrance
which she COntrives to import TO the flut-
terlnS iolds OF her gowns ana belongings.
Another means of obtaining the same
charm is the perfume bath. whose fra
grant aroma elings to the body for hours
afterward. Not only does the delicate.
scent cling, but the perfumed bath gives
to the skin soft. velvetiike appearance.
Such a bath is an admirable substitute
for aromatic toilet salves and sweet
Some women have even tried the plan
of injecting perfume under the skin with
a syringe in order to make an OdOr of
violets or roses cling to them. A few
drops of perfume is all that is required.
From the moment the skin is charged
with the scent a faint. subtle. Elusive
perfune seems 70 breatbe forth abont nc
woman who has tried this freak OF
fashion. The plan, though IS not with
out its suggestion of danger.
Perfumes are health giving as well as
beauty giving, and their use, therefore
is not wholly matter OF taste. Nearly
all perfumes have antiseptic qualities
and are valuable in keeping away infec-
ton.
The perfumes which are the most
agreeable to the sense are not always
the NOS SIipful to the nerves. Amber
girls. for instance, is positively offensive
to many, yet il is said to possess a Won
derfuI power -of clearing the brain and
driving away the blues. On the other
hand. altar Of roses. with the suggestion
OF glowing suns and gorgeous eastern Coz
A faint OdOr of musk acts as a tonic,
for which the best antidOte is the Odor
of sandal wood. The fragrance of cit
ron is soothing 70 nervous folk as the
sound of far off music.
The scent of orange flowers is so de-
pressing TO the action of the heart that
that organ to inhale il for any length OF
time. Reviving perfumes come from her
baceOus plants largely, from the doors Of
mfgnonette. rosemary and lavender and
fne he ~ of
Deare some flowers were especially dedi-
Gated to middle age. Perdita puts laVen-
der in this list.
acacia are pleasant and soothing to a
healthy sense. though delicate nerves
cannot enjoy them ever in their garden
freshness. Brought closer in clusters OF
blossoms. their odor is narcotic and de-
pressing. so that persons grow faint at
the smell of them, and may be put into
heavv slumber as If drusged by their
odoT.
A vivid perfume is nearly always brac-
ing. while a subtle one Is generally ener-
waiting.
A woman should choose the perfume
she uses as carefully as she selects her
garments. Someone says. that a woman
who changes her perfumes as she does the
style of her dress is hopeless on the
contrary. the woman who always eXhale6
the same delicate fragrance is like the
flower she resembles Her friends lnink
Of her and know her as the incarnation
OF the violet or the rose with which she
is assimiated.
The character of the woman or at
least It's development. may be told by
perfume.
Tel me your perfume" says the per
son versed in this lore, and III tell you
what YOU are.
Violet is the device Of the coQUittish.
II is faint. fragrant, Elusive drawing
Won on TO seek out its artful patroness.
AS for the scent OF orchids, that is Tor
the grand and stately dame. The scent
Of the unarechal rose is the scent of re-
gret and Of sentimental memories. and Of
tine white rose that Of yogg love.