Rabbits are very unsystematic eaters
Some of you may know already: There was a time in my life when I had an animal companion: A rabbit (castor rex, more on this breed here), female, mother of 4 daughters and sons, a happy family for a couple of weeks in an apartment in Zurich (you still see the holes in walls and pyjamas…), huge and living freely in the apartment. With nice weather, she would be outside, in a little fenced grassy area where she would hop around, dig holes, get dirty and eat. Her eating was always very unsystematic. Loving primrose flowers, she would hop here, eat one, then hop there and look for another one although there was one right next to her, but this did never seem to be good enough. At the end of the day, the primrose flowers would be gone nevertheless, and although it is not the most effective grazing technique, rabbit evolution allowed this grazing pattern. Do not ask me why.
Some perfumers are working the same way. Hopping from one scent to the next, one day they will get there, but it may not be most effective….
Some of you may know already: Everything happening in the tauer lab ends up in an excel file, with each story line -such as Orris- filling a sheet. This sheet is filling up, and sometimes it is a hall of pain, of shame and rarely you find some formula in there that reflect something pleasing. Since a couple of months there are a couple of cells, imported from my hyacinth sheet, being a lily of the valley accord. This one then you find again together with black pepper, a hint cumin, some orris, and lots of vetiver, but subtle and green, with cedar and myrrh, running under no particular title so far.
Yesterday, in a peaceful minute, there was the hyacinth theme version 10.0 and version 10.2 in the air. The later being slightly less mechanic, if you know what I mean (if you don’t…here is the idea); and later even there was the frankincense followed by lily of the valley and later more spices with orange flower, in the air.
Now, after a long hopping period around all these bottles and themes and versions, I figured out, it will be time for a consolidation… respectively line up for myself and you what I have there and prioritize what to do next….
(Names do indicate some notes, but are running titles)
Hop 1: spices and orange flower: Finished to a certain point, don’t know what to do with it. Wait for maturation of final mix.Getting tired of spices.
Hop 2: hyacinth and a mechanic: Finished 2 versions with mechanic present in different intensity, but do not know how present the mechanic shall be. To be figured out: Concentration of fragrance.
Hop 3: Frankincense theme: Still some hops to be done, wait for maturation.
Hop 4: spiced up lily of the valley with orris and woods: A first hop but already very, very good.
Perfumer hopping on to the next flower….
June 14th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Dear Andy, is very a pity to me, that I cannot go through with all of you a way, development and a direction of movement of aromas. It is madly interesting. Your Vladimir
June 14th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Wow, Andy - you sound busy - but it is lovely - these themes and variations and ideas are absolutely mesmerizing! Good luck! Hugs, K.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Keep it up, my soldier…
You have a lot to keep track of!
[I’m interested in smelling all of them; do you have any that smell like your rabbit ?]
I love your fertile mind, and your socks.
Kisses to you !
June 14th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
“Spiced up lily of the valley with orris and woods” - I want! :-)
June 14th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Andy, I wish I lived in Zurich, because I’d constantly be at your door with some foodstuff or other going “So, whatcha got now?!?” I don’t bug my local perfumer nearly as much, I really should (her name’s Dorothy, she works down the street…)
I’m rooting for the mechanic to be there, in full force, cuz, well, you know he’s got those glacially blue eyes and the slightly begrimed hands…so many hyacinth scents are just PRETTY, you know? The Lily of the Valley sounds interesting too. Like Marina–I WANT!
June 14th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Dear Marina and Arhianrad. we will see what we can do ;-)
Dear Chayaruchama, my rabbit smelled lovely for me! some thought that the entire apartment smelled like rabbit and did not really find it that good. too animalic…hehehe
Hugs to you!
Dear Vladimir, one day we have to meet either there or here and then…. we gonna have a sniffing party!
Dear Konstantin, thank you. I will give my best to come up with something at the end of the day…you will see , I hope
June 14th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I must have been your rabbit in my previous life. Very unsystematic but manage to stay alive and finish the job at the end. And I have great news to report, not for Internet.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Dear Andy,
You just keep hopping while we sit back hoping for another fabulous fragrance! I do like all of your ideas (lotv - orris - woods) and wish you’d consider that aldehydic (perhaps even green) iris/leather. :-)
June 15th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Hmm, getting tired of spices? Andy, I think I recognize in that the artist’s desire to be done with the current project already and move on to the next thing that shines so tantalizingly. We’re all rabbits in that way. It will be wonderful.
June 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am
oohh..the lily of the valley one sounds amaazing…
Has the orange flower with spices one changed much??
June 15th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Hi Jivko! I am curious….
Dear Dusan
hopping while hoping. yes…hmmm about the aldehydic iris/leather. ah well, those leathers…I never say never, but do not want to make you too much hope for the near future…(perfumer hopping away to the post office, getting his little painting tablet )
Dear Maria
yes, and no. Let’s put it this way..getting tired of these spices with the orange flower. But in two weeks or so I will look at it again, because it will have matured then and then we will see…
Dear Lavanya
Yes, it sounds good, doesn’t it. a first inspection tells me that the pepper needs a little bit of attention and the vetiver needs to become more prominent.
The spices and orange flower hasn’t changed much, not really. I made a little bit more to see whether I can reproducibly make it. And I wanted to make a mod that can mature peacefully, with as little ethanol as possible, as close to the way the final perfume would mature.
Greetings to you all!
June 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I used to have a Rex rabbit named Prince…he was loose in the house and he’d always follow us around and keep up company. I miss him dearly!
Your little hops sound interesting - especially, well, especially all of them.
June 17th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Well dear Andy, I must have some rabbit traits too cause I hop between the newest version of the L&L blend, once incensy fume (version no8 and I’m starting to believe that it’s a never ending story) and a rosy EdC. I sniff a bottle here and a scentstrip there, never entirely satisfied.
Luckily Fiona and Arwen haven’t cought up on these rabbity sides of my persona or they would come chasing after me like bats out of h-l ROFLMAO.
Big hugs,
Ylva