The Lady in charge prefers Pink

They call her "The Pink Gardenia", but never to her face. She DOES favor the color pink and her fragrance IS a beautiful blend of GARDENIA mingled with jasmine and rose. But who exactly is this woman? Her name NEVER appears in the gossip columns. She has NEVER been touched by even a HINT of scandal. And when you do see her picture in the paper, it is likely to be at a charity event where she is simply one among the committee. The truth is unless you read the BUSINESS press, her name would be meaningless to you and you would not know that her company is headed toward the top ranks of the Fortune Five Hundred and that she makes decisions daily that affect the lives of thousands in countries around the world. Does she rule with an iron hand, or with a pink velvet glove? Certainly she must be as tough as nails but those who are close to her (when they talk at all) seem to actually be quite FOND of her, or so you would think. They tell of a person confident and competent, who knows who she is and what she is doing, who knows what she has to do and gets it done, with a minimum of fuss and drama. Even her competitors seem to admire her — "from a safe distance", as one man said — because she has little tolerance for vapid social interaction. Her private life? It remains very private. The tabloids show little interest in the captains of industry, even when the captain is a woman. But working fifteen hours a day leaves very little time for much of a personal life — or does it? We don't really know. What we DO know is that she is the force behind a great multi-national. But we know more about her "numbers" than we do about her tastes, her likes and her dislikes. It's not even clear whether she is married or single but nobody who has ever met her questions her appeal as a woman. And we do know she favors pink and could care less if every woman in Chicago and New York thinks black is the essential power color. And we do know that she favors the heady aroma of the gardenia and she's never without her fragrance. So ask yourself, could a little of that Pink Gardenia do something wonderful for you?

Lester Frogge comments:

"Gardenia is a difficult flower to cultivate. Women who favor gardenia can be difficult. Like a gardenia, the more you struggle to trim them back, the more they flourish. Gardenias do just fine when you leave them in their natural environment but try to tame them and get them to adopt to your environment and they can get mighty temperamental."

"I don't like to mess in the garden. Too much dirt. Besides, they treat me better in the house. (Please notice the crown!) But "they" wouldn't even think of trying to grow gardenias in the house so — tragedy, weep weep — I have to rely a woman to bring me that beautiful aroma that just makes my toes tingle — Pink Gardenia — that's the name of the fragrance (you're looking at it, at this web page) and I just wallow in its light but oh, so narcotic aroma."

"Of course, being a perfume and not a plant, the Pink Gardenia (I speak of the perfume now, not the woman) has to have other things in it — stuff that lets perfume reviewers talk about top notes, heart notes, and base notes. So, looking at my notes, I'm supposed to tell you that Pink Gardenia has top notes of gardenia (duh!), jasmine and rose, heart notes of vanilla and freshly cut grass, and a very oceanic bottom note which is, lucky for me, only the ocean breeze and not salt water."

The Lady in charge prefers Pink

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