A short film (about 13 minutes) from Avon about the joy of living with fragrance. I don't know when it was made (early 1960s, I'd guess), but it's from the time when flowers still came from Grasse and perfumes included real animal ingredients (civet, musk, ambergris). And if this woman is any guide, women used gallons and gallons of perfume.
Thanks to Angie & Joe for the link!
Update: video no longer available, sorry!
Thanks for posting this. It’s a kick. But no mention of the potential of fragrance being overpowering – especially in the quantity and layering that woman did. 🙂
I do understand they’re in the business of selling perfume, but still — the amount of perfume this woman goes through is staggering, LOL….
The film seems to be an atempt to convince woment to constantly wear fragrance, and probably is more a reflection of what Avon wished women would do, rather than what they did.
The women in the film look, (apart from the fact that they are all models) rather like the women in my neighborhood when I was a child. I don’t remember the women as particularly heavily scented. In fact, given the explosion of fragrance lines and the development number of “sport,””fresh” and other alternative scents so that one can wear perfume without being noticable to everyone in the room immeadiately, I suspect women wear more scents now.
Yes, I’m sure they did not wear that much perfume. But by all accounts, more women wore perfume then than do now.
Or to rephrase that, statistics, if you believe them, show that fragrance use is down.
Wow! That woman can make a bottle of perfume appear out of thin air! I want to be able to do that.