Evening star., 1916-08-14
OF Interest to Women
YOUR FAv0RITE SCENT.

| Perfume is used now either as a tonic
or as a faint suggestive scent that
clings to skin and clothes.
| In our own rooms we may use it as
enthusiastically as we please. We may
scent our baths heavily; we may sit
with huge jar of perfumed smelling
| salts open before US; we may saturate
! our handkerchief with the most pun
gent perfume. In this form it is actual
~ tonic. soothing to tired nerves and
stimulating to tired bodies.
But when we go from home we must
take with us just the faintest sugges-
tion OF the scent Of our favorite per-
| 1ume. II we do not care for perfume,
! and therefore take none with US
when we go abroad, we hurt nobody s
1eeilngs. On the other hand, If we take
heavy scent of perfume into theater.
church, crowded bus or car. we are al
most sure. in this strange age, to cause
real distress to some modern hater of
perfume.
So much for the use of perfume.
Now. about your favorite kind What
ever IT is, be consistent in it's use. Let
your toilet water. your sachet. your
perfume. your talcum powder, your
creams and your lotions be scented
hands and a taste for doing that sort of
thing. prepare various scents for them
selves. 1t is not difficult to perfume
powder and creams. and it is not at all
tlons and toilet waters. Indeed. one
comes to consider oneself a sort of
medieval alchemist after working
over bain-maries and mortars for
The habit of decanting ones lotions
and creams. so to speak. is an attrac-
tive one. Nowadays you know, the
woman who likes all things dainty has
sets OF Jars and bottles into which she
transfers her toilet lotions and creams
from their original containers. Some
times she orders these jars and bottles
mace to her own taste, and sometimes
she contents herself with the charming
ones that can be bought in the shops.
Made to order. these sets can be deco
rated in any desired fashion-with
violets. If your favorite scent is violet,
with roses or lilies or clover or any
other design that signifies the scent of
your choice. If you buy these bottles
and jars already painted perhaps those
showing black bars and lines on the
glass background are most effective.
Perhaps the simplest thing for a be-
ginner in the art of concocting per-
fumes to do is to perfume powder. This
is simply done by sprinkling the leaves
Of a highly scented flower in a paper
fine rice powder. Let the powder re-
main on the flower leaves for several
days and then carefully sift them out.
The powder by this time should be
sweet, but the perfuming process can
be repeated if necessary.
To make sachet powder. get founda-
tion of cyprus powder at the drug
store. This is really the basis for
triple essence or essential oil Of the
scent you wish, and let the powder
dry, when it will give out the desired
odor.
To make a very good lavender sachet
powder, mix five ounces powdered
dried lavender flowers. one and one
half ounces of powdered benzoin. three
ounces of the cyprus powder and three
quarters of drachm of oil of Law
ender (Mitcham).
This is not a very good time to get
any of the more complicated formulas
put up by druggist. because of the
scarcity Of drugs. Very often 1t is
or other ingredient called for that is
essential to the formula. In times of
peace it is easy enough to get, but now,
with war in Europe. 1t is SO scarce
Not long ago>a formula presented to a
druggist called for india ink. He had
none of this now precious substance.
and he substituted something else,
which he thought would give the
same result The formula was for an
eyebrow blackener, and the black he
substituted for the ink was of a sticky,
gummy consistency. Imagine the re-
sult-a substance much like mucilage,
Of course. quite useless for it's original
purpose-or, indeed. for any other.
So it Is better either to make the
simplest sort of things or to buy those
already made by reputable Arms.
Some young girls put pretty vogue
into practice. They choose their ia
vorite flower. and then use it exclu-
sively. With 1t all their toilet aids
are scented; with it the cretonne that
decorates their room is designed; with
1T the flower bowls and vases on Dress
ing table, desk and stand are filled.