Rain drops
What a week end! It was so intense that I could write for hours about it. There was the meeting on Saturday with Vero, my dear perfumery friend. We came accross quite a few interesting points when looking at some scents, including the lavender thing of mine. I will write about one of these issues, which is kind of a paradox, tomorrow. Then I was heavily engaged in threatening my neighbour’s cholesterol level by preparing my potatoe salad, like I do it every year once for our summer party. It is really heavy stuff, which might be one reason why I like it so much, based on a recipe I got from mom, with tons of mayonnaise and bakon.
It turned out that this year, we all could handle some calories more at our summer party, where we invite all neighbours living around us…. as soon as the fire was ready, after a delicious apero, sponsored by a new neighbour, it started to rain like hell. It was fun for the first minute. You had people singing for 30 seconds “I am dancing in the rain” but when our guests got really wet, it got kind of silent again. And I seriously worried about my salad, being diluted to something healthy and we moved everything to the restaurant nearby (the ” Alte Trotte”, regular readers of this blog know this place) where we were allowed to continue our party… Thus a line of 20 people grabed the salads, bread, meat, the gleaming grill, the wine and after half an hour we were ready again.
Sunday saw me cleaning up the soaking wet mess, and some jogging in the rain to get a clear head for my L’air du désert endeavour. The rest of the day was more or less devoted to hand pour L’air du désert bottles, and more bottles, and even more bottles. Pascal had a really great L’air du désert week and sold the stuff like warm bread. He is happy and so am I. I can’t wait for this year’s x-mas season. Thus, while pouring and enjoying the waves of desert air surrounding me, I was thinking seriously about the packaging concept for the L’air and . More about this issue, which is important for me and which I discussed for hours now with Pascal will follow later…….and finally, after falling in some sort of desert air delirium, I figured out the menu for tonight: A dear friend from the Lonestar State is visiting us and I am curious to see her reaction on the Lonestar memories of mine.
Besides all this looking back: I will be absent Wednesday until Friday for business reasons. Let’s see whether I find the time to blog. And: Please make sure to visit Columbina’s blog tomorrow. She will discuss the Orris scent, I have no clue what her critic is going to be like and I am really curious on her thoughts…..
August 21st, 2006 at 10:18 am
Hi Andy, I hope you had a nice ’summer party” any way. Here in The Netherlands it’s raining also. Oh I love the patatoe salad as well it’s sold here in The Netherlands as well but it’s not the same as a home made salad. You must be very happy with Vero, I think every perfumer need to have feedback from another perfumer. Great to hear that L’air du désert is sold so well!
August 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Dear Jenny
The party was just great, sometimes such little incidents help to bond people together and make -out of a group of happy party people- a bunch of tough fellows, fighting together with the rain.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hallo Herr Tauer,
nun haben wir Sie gefunden! Zuerst bei 1000 & 1 Seife in Berlin eine Visitenkarte bekommen und über die Website der seifenwerkstatt das Aromatische-Blog gefunden und nun sind wir hier. Wir hatten uns über Wuchsa schon einige Proben bestellt und nun wird es noch viel spannender weil man mehr Dinge zu den Düften erfährt.
Es grüßt Familie Blume
February 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Nun denn: Herzlich willkommen! Und liebe Grüsse zurück mit einem Danke-Schön für Ihr Interessse.