Tuvache Perfume Amulets

The Modesto Bee And News-Herald, 1946:

Beauty Hints by Alicia Hart.

" Tucking a sweet scented pellet of cotton into a stocking welt via the backseam opening may sound like heaping on the glamor, but it makes practical sense as a perfume saver. Good perfume, especially a concentrate, will tantalize nostrils for days. Tuck pieces of perfumed cotton also into a bra or girdle top. So says a perfumer wise to the ways of imprisoning scents which fight to escape. Mrs, Bernadine de Tuvaché suggests holding fragrances in perfume amulets. To make an amulet--the size of a good luck charm a gremlin might wear --she uses a strip of ribbon one half inch wide and two inches long! Into this ribbon "pocket"--folded and sewed together on three sides --she stuffs a perfume soaked piece of cotton, and tacks the open end closed. Try her trick, and see how much longer your perfume lasts. When the amulet needs to be retired, Mrs. de Tuvaché says it can still do service as a sachet in your bureau drawer."