Some figures in the perfume business noted that such collections are not new.

There are said to be experts in the perfume business who can identify several hundred different scents.

For Carl Schaab is in the perfume business, sort of.

The 11-year-olds at the Albert Leonard Middle School here are in the perfume business.

Thanks to Octavia's treachery, she has lost her entire fortune, her perfume business, and her two daughters.

She owns the perfume business of her dead husband and has a journeyman named Druot, who is also her lover.

"But then, perfume business is fantasy business, is it not?"

The perfume business lost $4.9 million last year and $1 million in the first quarter of this year, according to the prospectus.

Michael Gould, who left department store management for the perfume business three years ago, is moving up within Avon Products Inc.

Eileen has also taught English, bred pigs, run a perfume business, dealt in scrap metal and became a successful hotelier.