RĂªverie au jardin
After a joyful evening with some heavy language, dead bodies all over, a fantastic DiCaprio! in “departed”, a glass of Shiraz and wonderful conversation, I realized how beautiful and peaceful life in a one-man company can be. No departed spies and counter-spies (both called rats) sneaking around me and my excels and mods. The only worries: Keep my firewall tight and my virus scan active and my mods limited to a countable number.
The postman will hopefully bring today or tomorrow the last ingredients for up-scaling and mixing the concentrate at day x, for a still undetermined numbers of bottles to launch at a still undetermined point of time in 2007. At least I think I know the final concentration (15%, eau de parfum strength): Testing a few concentrations from 8 to almost 20% I found 15% to be perfect to bring out the notes, with the right intensity and balanced appearance. I was pretty amazed on the differences and would not have expected such change in the overall appearance, especially of the head notes; I think with the chosen final concentration the green, fresh top notes come out best.
In a sense, there is some melancholy going with it, the day when finally the formula is carved into stone, being a moment of now-or-never; this is the moment when the musing about a green leave here and a woody stick there and a fresh lavender flower on top of it comes to an end:
RĂªverie au jardin… be it…back to French names!
Greetings from the garden
January 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Is that going to be the name? Oh boy you love to see me squirm don’t you!!
Heather is about to go forth, butchering the French language all over again!
I’m so so curious though
Heather
January 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I am looking forward to this scent. I love lavender and I expect something lovely from you - after trying your first 3 scents I have great respect towards your talent.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
yes! Soon the lavender will be born. :) Can’t wait for this one, I loved the mod you sent, and I”m sure the tinkering since then made something already great even better.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Nice name, my guy !
AHA !
Guess what?
You got to see a LOT of my neighborhood, my stomping grounds, last night…how cool is that ?
Now, when you meet Matt Damon, ask him why he is SO hung up on South Boston ?
Cambridge would do as well- and he hails from there.
Kind of like my beloved John Waters, and Baltimore, or those geeky Farrelly brothers, and Providence…
GENUG, I say !
I love the idea that the film brings us closer together [aw, shucks !].
BTW,Nicholson’s character is based on the infamous Whitey Bulger- who was spotted in So. Cal, leaving the theater after viewing this film, lol.
His bro, Billy, is a brilliant, quirky academic and politician, who doesn’t own a TV, reads in ancient Greek and Latin, does not wear designer clothes.
Has a MILLION kids, all with the same,very lovely and down-to-earth wife, Mary.
I see him at the local polls, and going to Mass every Sunday at St. Brigid’s….
January 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Andy, you think there are thieves who work alongside you, in a position of trust, and then steal private info for their own gain? Welcome to the world of perfumery, lol. Happened to me once, just a list of names in a power play, but the karmic backfire is that she is languishing in the same puddle, and I’m doing very well since wonderful people gathered around me to overcome the thievery. Don’t be afraid to trust, it will all work out in the end ;-)
About formulae and such: just have a code, if need be, to tweak a percentage or name, and the key in another file. That’s the way the intellegence agencies do it. Off-site protection, as it were.
I am more intrigued by this new scent than any of your others, somehow it truly reaches into my soul, perhaps because I have read more about it, your yearning search to reach perfection. Mazel tov on the birth/release, you have an army of fans out there who are eagerly awaiting another Tauer beauty.
Why does the name have to be French? How about back to the roots - Latin? Lavandula for the Linneaus nod, or literal - lavande virga — a green lavender twig. Commiseco (to intermingle) is nice, and isn’t that what it’s all about?!
January 10th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Are you accepting orders yet (pre-orders)? Oh Andy, I always knew you were a genius and I think I get points for knowing this a long, long time ago. The names of perfumes don’t really matter that much to me. I remember being asked what I was wearing once and answered “first fig” instead of Premier Figuier because it sounds odd to these American ears. I store my fragrances in a dark drawer, so no one reads the labels but me. I say whatever you want to call it will be fine. Am I correct that it translates to “Daydream with the garden”?
January 10th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Heather…please forgive me…I just couldn’t resist! But trust me it’s easier than you’d think…hmm…maybe I should include a CD with pronouncing instructions for my distributors ;-)
Benvenuta…thank you very much. It is somewhat different , at least in my nose, to what I have done so far. But I guess I am not a good critic…..
Patty…Let’s hope for best…haven’t figured out a birth day but this time I feel like partying.
Chayaruchama…oho! That’s very cool. But I must admit that I was trying desperately not to get lost in this crowd of rats and counter-rats that there was not much time to follow the scenery….hmmm… I had the impression that Boston was a little bit dark, quite different to what I have seen when being there a while ago (app. 10 years)…
I did not know you like John Waters. I find some (not all) of his movies incredibly funny, disturbing and making you think quite often. I love his movies (most of them) and I think he is a very gifted person. Greetings to Boston, in full sunlight I hope!
Anya…You probably guess what my deepest worry is: a fire or something like that in my house. Thus, I have a copy of the formula in a dry, safe and out-of-my-house-place! I do not care about my passport, my clothes, photos, nothing…, but these few papers with a couple of dozens lines on them and a few numbers are more precious to me than the papers proving my identity. I do not trust these files an external server…!
Why French? hehehe…I love the way the words sound… a nice latin alternative might be: Folia Lavandulae oculi exornatuli hortus or
Lavandula animus amans hortus
January 10th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Dear Kelly…I am flushing….
The name -to my best knowledge and my gut feeling for French- leaves some room for ambiguity, which is nice.
RĂªverie = dream, day dream, a little dream fantasy,
RĂªverie au jardin can be interpreted as
daydream in the garden
….a little fantasy about the garden
…a sentimental garden fancy,
… a sentimental garden dream…
Indeed, you raised an important point…I could imagine that the name as well as the haptics of the packaging and other side aspects have quite an influence on the appreciation of a fragrance. At least at the first encounter. Subconscious, maybe?
Maybe it is like love on one side and falling in love one the other side.
We fall in love within seconds, the first impression of a human being just turns this trigger and we focus quite strongly on outer values…the packaging! after weeks this may develop into love that grows over years, the longer the more independent from the beloved one’s outside, but driven and nourished by what makes a person special and unique, mostly inner values
January 10th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
I am enjoying reading about the creation of this as much as I am salivating over the idea of smelling it…
January 10th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Thank you, tmp00… more is to follow on packaging issues soon…
January 11th, 2007 at 12:09 am
I am very much looking forward to sampling this … sounds like a very nice fragrance for spring/summer. Of your efforts to date, l’air du desert is my favorite - lonestar a bit too leathery for me (though I recommended it to a friend who’s fond of leather frags and he loves it), orris too flowery for me (I love the smell of roses but have had to decide I love more smelling it on other people). But all three take my head to a different strange and wonderful place. The best frags make me think, “This reminds me of some place, some when, but I’m not exactly sure … but it’s just on the tip of my tongue” triggering a kind of deja vu in me, a nostalgia for places I’ve never been, experiences I’ve never had.
So I’m looking forward to going to a new place I’ve never been with Reverie au Jardin … and hope you are considering eventual release of eau d’epices. I love spices … one of my favorite Creeds is Baie de Geneivre (which also has cinnamon leaf in it), though it unfortunately doesn’t last very long on my skin.
And I think we all appreciate being able to share in your creative musings and your process notes … I look forward to visiting your blog (and Ayala’s too) each morning before coffee!