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Impeccable ladies in summer white were ushered into Audrey Gruss’s Southampton estate by a phalanx of well-mannered men and women who whisked them out of cars, directed them through a white and cream entry room, through a large manicured lawn circled by white hydrangeas to the pool area, equally bejeweled by white dogwood trees with gardenia flowers wired around them, an apple orchard and white birch allee. Audrey warmly greeted all. She had invited her group of friends to celebrate recent advances in her Hope for Depression Research Foundation, the Hope Fragrance she created to help fund it, and to give a preview of its new product in the works: Body Mist Light, that will launch in the fall.

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Audrey Gruss and Lara Meiland-Shaw

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Audrey Gruss and Joan Carl

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Lee Fryd and Natalie Ross

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Judith Giuliani, Anne Eisenhower and Sandy Norman

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Mariana Kaufman, Nancy Schaffel and Elizabeth Howard

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Linda Fraser, Crystal Meszkat and Louisa Benton

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Susan Meyer and Elizabeth Howard

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Shannon Nordeman and Katherine Embiricos LeFrak

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Joan Hornig, Lauren Day Roberts and Sharon Bush