Which Did He Like?
3 MAN came up to a counter where I was demonstrating, unscrewed a bottle of perfume, smelt it, and said: ‘I’ll have this one.’ Always conscientious, I said: ‘The right way to try perfume is to smear a little on the back of your hand and sniff.’ He tried it that way and said: ‘I don’t like it.’ I said, "Well, if you smell the bottle, you get too much alcohol.’ He looked at me sadly and said: ‘Maybe it’s the smell of alcohol I like.’ ’’-- Mabel McCaw, a Canadian beauty expert, talking in the BBC’s "In Town Tonight," about her job.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 19
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106Which Did He Like? New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 19
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