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...lucky, you might get some tips from "the Nose"?Galimard's master perfumer, Jacques Maurel. Part of an ?lite group of fewer than 20 top perfumers worldwide, Maurel has powers of smell that a bloodhound would envy. He says "fruity and flowery scents," are in fashion now?and it's his business to know, because all but a handful of the 100 or so fragrances launched each year are soon withdrawn from the shelves of the world's beauty stores and duty-frees...
...cafes. "People used to drink wine with their meals as a matter of course," Claude Vilain, of France's Committee for Health Education, says. "Now it's something for weekends and guests." Perhaps, but whiskey drinking is on the rise, as are sales in higher-priced vintages. Alain Maurel of Alexis Lichine & Cie, a Bordeaux wine firm, says, "The French are more aware of quality. There has been so much specialist wine coverage in the press. Wine is a star now." When asked if Moet-Hennessy, famed for its champagnes and cognacs, would produce soft drinks, a spokesman cried, "Absolutely...
Public opinion naturally blamed the Marseille underworld, but the culprit was actually Daniele Maurel, 21, an about-to-be-fired secretary in the ministry who only wanted to help her brother and her boy friend's friend's brother. Once she gave away the answers to her friends, they spread all over the south of France, causing the biggest education scandal in many decades...
Last week Danièle Maurel was sentenced to ten months in prison, and assorted accomplices got lesser terms. Her father saw her misdemeanor as the result of too much heart. "My daughter has the mentality of a St. Bernard," he said...
Critics did not compare him with Maurel. But they did admit that vocally Warren had an edge on Tibbett's now rather threadbare version, and that the newcomer made Shakespeare's amorous fat man a likable and believable character. It looked as though the Met's fourth Falstaff might reign for some time...