Word: musk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admirers it is a warm, natural, incredibly sensual fragrance. To its detractors, it is warm and natural all right-but about as sensual as dirty sweatsocks. One thing is certain. Musk oil is the most popular new fragrance in the country...
When New York's Caswell-Massey Co. began selling the oil and other essences for do-it-yourself perfumery, it discovered that many women preferred the musk by itself. "I have to admit we were taken completely by surprise," confesses the firm's president, Ralph Taylor. He and other manufacturers set to bottling the stuff, and sales of the fragrance, which retails at about $5 per half-ounce, are now estimated at $1,000,000 per month. Reports Jovan's Mitchell: "J.C. Penney, Bergdorf Goodman's-they all want musk...
Part of the reason may be that younger women are tired of delicate floral scents. Part may also be musk oil's reputation as an aphrodisiac, which dates back several thousand years. Before the Chinese sealed the border between Tibet and Nepal, oil from the scent gland of the Tibetan musk deer was selling for as much as $600 per kilogram in India. The new perfumes, however, are made from chemicals...
...pandas from Red China, are so happy in their new digs at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., that they have taken to standing on their heads and wiggling their rumps in an apparent gesture of good will. From Peking, however, came ominous reports that Milton and Matilda, the musk oxen that President Nixon presented to the Chinese, were not on exhibit at the Peking Zoo because they were suffering from postnasal drip and a skin condition that was causing them to shed their hair...
...People's Republic of China clearly won a battle of images in its first exchange of permanent representatives with the U.S. Installed in the Peking zoo were Milton and Matilda, two woebegone musk oxen that arrived with scraggly coats and postnasal drip brought on by the climate change and general cultural shock. Last week, the Chinese part of the exchange, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate...