One month maturation for version 3 and why oakmoss won’t work this time
When browsing through the trial versions excel file yesterday, I realized that version 3.0 has matured for a month. Wow. Time’s passing fast these days. Thus, it was time to get a new, really fast digital camera…. yes, hurray! Finally, I got it. Long awaited, in love with it for quite a while in sort of a long-distance relationship (me behind the computer, camera somewhere in a warehouse)…we are finally united. And -like in every relationship that is supposed to last- you have to work on it. I am reading a long manual which reminds me in my early product manager days when I had to write manuals…brrrr! Hard work, trust me! My new machine love and me will soon go for a walk, playing….. Before doing so: Back to the 1 month matured rose&frankincense storyline, featuring some spices, flowers, woods and balms.
So far, version 3 is the one most promising. Knowing already, that walking to mainland China might be faster then getting this baby to a finished level, there is at least some hope. The undiluted soup (under the nose right now) shows a rose that is dark and spicy without turning too fast into a soap opera, and the frankincense is well bound into woods and balms that support it and make it last. Especially the last two points I found most disappointing the last weeks. It is amazing how little of this or that is needed to bring the frankincense airiness to a complete stop.
More: To stop it entirely. You know it is there, but it is gone. Trust me: No question of Frankincense quantity. 25% of the best quality Frankincense dissolves into nothingness by adding an inappropriate mix of oakmoss, ionones and irisones and others. The second last mod was most disappointing, even without any maturation…frankincense deserted land.
Thus, the purpose of this post: Tell you how some notes may complete delete other notes, eat them up, and this post will gear myself towards version 3. Next: Look for the things that are not good, like the geranium essential oil bringing in an “old rose” touch, reconsider the aldehydes, etc. …but before that…out playing!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Ah, Andy, it’s so interesting to read your works-in-progress.
I think you just explained why so many men want all the new technological gadgets — who wouldn’t want love that comes with an instruction manual?!? Enjoy.;>) –Ellen
June 6th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Andy, did you get the Nikon D80? A friend of ours who has it gets amazing shots. Your description of the negating action of oakmoss on frankincense helps explain why one seldom sees them together. They worked very well in Reverie, so you must have found the right proportions there. But, yes, one goes to another composition and wants the elements to do something different there. Fascinating!
Hey, Ellen, LOL!
June 6th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Oh, yes, Maria… I got the D80! And I am happy. Very happy indeed. I saved a while for it, but I think it is worth it. And I fought for 3 months with me before buying. Making sure I really wanted it. The W-factor always told me that my old one is still fine (an old coolpix 5000). But there was one day, where I just could not resist, and I filled out the form in 60 seconds, and it was mine.
And Yes, my der Pitbull friend: You got it right! It was like calling a date again…knowing you shouldn’t but then you do… and it comes with a manual..heheheh…I wished sometimes relationships would offer this feature. Like “HAving troubles with your lover? Just click here…Make sure you visited our FAQ before engaging into serious acts…”
Greetings to you
June 6th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I think cameras are great investments :) Enjoy yours, and I’m looking forward to the pics…as for frankincense and oakmoss, Andy, I’ll just have to take your word for it. I’ve never dabbled in my own scent-making (hangs head).
June 6th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Interesting, very interesting. I simply cannot understand why oakmoss would “delete” frankinsence. The only idea I have is that they work on the same olfactory reseptor/s and the oakmoss has a lower dissociation constant, so you make some sort of competition assay there. You can easily check this with serial dilutions of oakmoss and constant frankinsence concentration. Below certain treshold you should smell both, and above it, only the oakmoss. To exclude some brutal substace/substance interaction, they should be bloted separately and sniffed in parallel. If it doesnt work, you may have modification of the key frankinsence aromatic moieties, or whatever bad can happen - precipitation?
June 7th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Its nice to hear about your various mods - the bit about the oakmoss and frankincense is especially interesting. Thanks for sharing!
oh..and yes enjoy your camera!
June 7th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Dear Jivko
Thank you for your thinking so hard! Here speaks the scientist. It is not precipitation, it is more oakmoss would cover the frankincense. It might well be competition on a receptor level. But then, I do not care about the why too much. The reason why I wanted to add oakmoss was: I wanted a somewhat animalic note, a softening effect, and a powdery effect on the woods. I do not want the oakmoss to be present as note. In the mean time I realized that myrrh does the trick somehow too, with a touch of jasmin (indolic note) and a hint cistus. Maybe I will come back to the oakmoss, but in lower, much lower concentrations…
Dear Lavanya
Thank you and the camera is just fun…
Dear Arianhad, I just posted the first picture on my blog. It is the first picture I made ever with this camera, sitting on the balcony and looking for the closest thing to take a picture of….
June 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Hmm, here I disagree,
the ‘why’ is the only question worth asking in any problem. There must be a reason, but I agree it is not of great practical importance, unless you have also a plan to use two such fragrances exactly for this reason, one covering the other for a delayed effect (if it can be done).
June 7th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Dear Jivko
Yes about the why question…Why is quite often a good question to ask, especially there where we tend to accept things although we should not. Or to address the basic questions in life, like why does my heart stop beating when I (fill in your moments of heart beat stop here)…