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[[italics]] Revillon's dazzling white theatre coat, double-breasted, pocketed, slim, offhandedly young. In Indian broadtail with mink margins, about $3,600 in Saks Fifth Avenue stores throughout the country. A logical perfume to go with it, the flowery fireworks of Revillon's own Detchema. In a purely elegant purse flask, a quarter-ounce, $10; an ounce, $32.50.[[/italics]]

Revillon...Black ermine, reversing from claret-colored Lakoda seal in Maximilian's slim, ascot neckline coat, is about as beautiful as anything can get...Fredrica's suit in green kangaroo has real style –- class, too...Ditto for some of the skinny black broadtail suits now found in every high-fashion collection...And the comeback of Persian lamb seems perfectly plausible the way Maximilian does it in bright white and in a long stretch of shades from wheat and champagne to coffee color.

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One woman's expensive answer to the "what would you like, dear?" question was flowery: "A lifetime subscription to fresh roses every day–-or a lifetime sub-

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scription to Patou's Joy perfume–-preferably both". That idea runs into money, Joy perfume fetching $50 for a single, rose-charmed ounce, and $15 for a slender sixth-ounce to carry. But once a woman loves it, she settles for nothing else. (Another Jean Patou product is the designing talent of Michel Goma, whose evening clothes at Bergdorf Goodman are considered to be in a class with Joy itself.)

Admirers of Dior perfumes, and that includes me, will almost inevitably be pleased with the newest, just added to the collection. Name: Diorling. Personality: contradictory –- inviting and innocent at the selfsame time. Specific flower accent: none -– it has a hint of practically every perfume-flower known to man. End result (isn't that all that really matters?): On the skin, Diorling smells "young", vivid, attractive. Appraise it for yourself, with $5 for the purse-size spray. That still leaves time before Christmas to suggest to anyone pantingly interested that you'd like the extravagant Baccarat flask (two ounces, $175). Or, more reasonably, in the classic Dior bottle, an ounce smells equally beautiful for only $25.

Guerlain, flushed with the success of their Chant d'Aromes perfume, new last fall, now bring it out in versions for making the bath a matching pleasure. Give it only to someone you like as well as yourself, this beautiful stuff of flowers and greenery: The bath oil, dusting powder and Pure Cologne Spray are each $5; the talc, for traveling, is $2.25. And if you're truly fond, Chant D'Aromes in perfume itself, is $25 the ounce.

A nice way to cultivate a young thing's appreciation of good fragrance could be with a set of colognes all different in type. Try this with Prince Matchabelli's trio of spray-mists. She'll have Wind Song (a high-pitched floral bouquet), Golden Autumn (mossy and leafy) and Prophecy (modern, woody-floral). How's that for