Show perfumes bad for singers great never wear bouton cleres nieres says a stage manager 16 once offered a white rose to jean de tie he turned down my offer why he said I 1 wouldn t wear that rose for 50 it might make me hoarse and I 1 in go ing to sing to night then he ex that all singers know that the inhalation of the perfume of flow ers has a bad effect on the vocal chords all flowers of perceptible odor are shunned on this account by pro fess ional singers the violet is es pec ally avoided for its effect is the worst of all |