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...Makers, denounces the rules as "unrealistic," noting that more than 100 ingredients can be used to create a fragrance. And in an industry where the beauty of a flask can be almost as important as its contents, the idea of swamping packaging with ugly words like ethyl linalool and geraniol is heresy. Even worse, Bodifee argues, the labels would be a free recipe that "favors counterfeiters." That could be devastating to areas of France like Grasse, a flower-growing town that brings in j600 million a year producing about half of French perfumes' raw materials and 8% of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Fourtou, Breaking Up is Hard to Do | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

...plays no sport but gin rummy) but lets Guy Laroche run up her dresses. She owns a dozen fur coats, a Goya, a Renoir, a Fiat and a Rolls-Royce. She applies her perfume to her clothes, rather than to her skin. Her favorite scent is a mixture of geraniol, rhodinol, cedryl, acetate, jasmine, geranium, santal, patchouli, oak moss and Tibetan musk. It is called "Madame Rochas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Well-Groomed Panther | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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