HUNGARY

About beautiful, aristocratic Hungarian, women there often clings a subtle, exquisite perfume. Often as not that perfume is created by M. Francois Coty of Paris, artificer of olfactory pleasure. Last fortnight, it seemed as if many Hungarian, women would still be delightfully gowned, still be beautiful, but unfortunately would not still be perfumed by Coty.

The reason is that M. Coty's perfumes were banned from Budapest last fortnight when he printed a disparagement titled "Hungary, Land of Counterfeiters and Pickpockets" in his French newspaper, L'Ami du Peuple.*

Today, no druggist in Budapest dares sell a Coty perfume, and no patriotic Hungarian woman is to be seen with a Coty vanity case or sensed by a Coty perfume.

Hungarian ladies, sipping their tea at smart Gerbauld's, or strolling beneath Budapest's pepper trees, are now perfumed with the lesser creations of local perfumers Hungarian, Austrian or German.

*He also owns the conservative journal I. Figaro.