VERBATIM

Excerpts from a press release for Amirage de Givenchy bath products:

First Stage: Purity. Innocence, tenderness, a caress: DELICATE PERFUMED SOAP rolls over the skin and slides between the fingers in a light lather. A playful and deliciously emollient round pebble, which leaves us with its exquisite aura.

Second Stage: Freshness. Protection, confidence, ease: the new roll-on called PERFUMED FRESHNESS is an alcohol-free deodorant, an emulsion of pure softness and real safety. . . .

Fifth Stage: Sophistication. Gentleness, fluidity, lightness: . . . talc is the skin’s icing sugar, a butterfly kiss planted in the body’s most secret folds. The rapture of PERFUME TALC . . . .

And here we thought we were just getting ready for work.