I would
“I would wear it”, said my one and only every day available perfume tester “W.” yesterday evening, somewhen between the atomic bomb exploding behind the Ural and NY city saved in “Peacemaker” on TV.
“What do you mean”, I asked because I consider wearability a rather soft statement. Not entirely sufficient to make a perfumer smile. I want statements like “heavenly”, or “wow” or “Interesting”, with the last statement telling me I am onto to something with character. Like Jenny mentioned today on her perfumemaking blog “I want to make perfumes that trigger a reaction….”. I think the same (in brackets…I want to make perfumes that trigger a positive reaction).
“I think I wouldn’t change a lot anymore”, W. said while Mr. Peacemaker was beating the hell out of a bad Eastern European guy. “I think it is something nice and new”, he continued and Mr. Peacemaker called Ms. Peacemaker (you know, the classical scheme: Ms Super-intelligent and Mr. brave and handsome) to tell her that one bomb is still missing.
I have changed a lot in my Lavender trials in the last few days, still relying on the basic scheme, but adjusting things that don’t work. Without realising, the journey brought me to a somewhat special lavender theme. I trimmed things down. Reduced the complexity and what was a dark Caravaggio has turned into something…..expressionist?
Now, what to do? I don’t think it is finished. Not at all. I will for sure continue working on it. But at least we have something wearable, at least by W. standards. I have to ask again, once the final bomb is found, not exploded and all bad guys have left planet earth. “What do you mean …it is nice and new”, I asked and Ms. Peacemaker was falling in love to a happy, handsome, dirty soldier, who just rescued the world.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Well, I love Caravaggio, but expressionism has a lot going for it. Glad that things ended happily for Nicole and George. Nothing like a standard formula movie. Though of course, there’s nothing standard formula about your deliriously delightful scents.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:39 pm
I know that feeling, my everyday tester is “M”, sometimes I want a bit of help an advice or like you said a “Wow that’s really nice”comment. Sometimes I trick him and let him smell different smelling strips with some famous perfumes and one of my own, sometimes it happen that he choose mine above the famous perfumes. That’s a Wow moment for me.
September 25th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Oh wow! Jenny, that for sure is a wow moment for me, too. I tend to do it rarely, but from time to time I test the senses of my guinea pig…fishing for compliments I guess, too.