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...emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater of Charles de Gaulle's French community 4,250 miles from Paris, natives and tourists sit at sunny, sidewalk tables placidly nibbling crusty French bread and sipping flat French beer; in narrow streets, the scent of bougainvillaea mingles with the fumes of beeping Simcas and Peugeots. And when le grand Charles stops over in Guadeloupe and Martinique this week on the way to and from his four-day visit to Mexico, he will find that the populace - even the Communists - are anx ious to maintain ties with...
...sportswear (though she 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...
After wine and pate, no product is more typically French than perfume. The French perfume industry sells $30 million worth of scent at home each year and, despite the rise of a huge cosmetics industry in the U.S., exports another $30 million worth. One reason for this success is the skillful art with which French perfume is marketed; it is subtly associated with haute couture, elegance and refinement...
...three indoor clay courts, located scent to the varsity's courts at Soldiers Field, are scheduled to open next month. The playing surface will be the same as that of the other clay courts, although the lack of rain is likely to make them harder than the outside courts...
Green for Ruddy, Blue for Sallow. The trend became obvious two years ago, when Elizabeth Arden noticed a sudden sales increase on its Arden for Men line (which includes face cream and face mask, hair spray, brilliantine, three kinds of scent and two shades of powder). Sales doubled in 1962 and are running about 100% higher this year. Revlon and Lanvin have followed Elizabeth Arden into the masculine market; Clairol may soon join the parade...