Zarathustra
I am right now in a thinking phase. Like in the first 30 seconds of “also sprach Zarathustra” by Deodato,  (I am listening to it while writing these lines, maybe I am a little bit old-fashioned here…but I LOVE IT!) , I not know yet where to go to with some ideas. It is these weeks before spring. Everything seems ready, the narcissus and hyacinths are still buried under ice cold earth but the tips of the coming bloom are prepared to grow into the air, just waiting for warmer air flying in from the Atlantic. Thanks and praise for the golf stream, by the way! Without this heat pump inside the Atlantic shortening our winters and making them acceptable, I would have left Switzerland years ago. I can not imagine living in a place like Novosibirsk or Anchorage…
Thus, having the Essencia price list and newsletter in my hands; thinking… about a tauer perfumes newsletter …technically I am there since I revamped my website, using Joomla this is easy, practically I am not sure whether there is a need/wish for it.
…about the next scent projects and the existing ones, like the vetiver that sits there, sort of finished. Maybe I should combine the newsletter with the scent projects, well…. I guess I should.
…about prices rising everywhere, including some raw materials I am using, wondering when they will finally show up in the inflation numbers, adding up to the perfect storm that we are seeing in the stock markets and real world economy these days
…thinking about some absolutes that my preferred supplier Essencia has in stock these days such as acacia, foin coupé …. I need to get samples there!
…thinking about real important things like making sure I have enough stock of the l’air du désert marocain…
Fragrant greetings from someone who read “Also sprach Zarathustra” in his 20-ies and never really got it.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’m fond of acacia and foin coupe, very fond.
I’m certain prices are getting prohibitive- what with climate changes, economical disarray…
Lots of factors there.
Always, I look forward to your latest thoughts and projects !
Big hugs.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’m glad not being the only one who didn’t get “also sprach Zarathustra, hehe.” I remember the song as well.
Well you’ve talked about the brewing storm in the stock markets before and I agreed with you. The Dow has been falling for the past couple of days now, and not just a few points each time. Of course, like you said, prices everywhere are going up at the same time. Scary, that!
And yes, keeping L’air stocked is important, very important.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
i wonder whether, with the climate change, some of the character of the absolutes will change drastically as well. the prices are, to me, not as important as the plant and the spirit of the plant. one hopes that we grow better from adversity and diversity, and thus the plants will too…
January 18th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Andy, I was a philosophy major in college. We never read Nietzsche in classes because he wasn’t a pure enough philosopher. Immanuel Kant was the ideal. I remember taking along Nietzsche for a little bit of light reading on a canoe ride in the Everglades with my first husband. I ended up having to worry much more about not getting overturned in the canoe when we wandered into more open bay water. Perhaps the mad rocking of the canoe is a good symbol for what it’s like to read Nietzsche? BTW, his name is hell to spell for non-German speakers; I always have to look it up, as I always guess wrong.
Fragrant greetings from a country that now officially needs an economic stimulus package. Maria
January 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Dear Chayaruchama
I wouldn’t even worry too much about prices. This we can handle. I worry more about availability in good, staying quality. That this is an issue for an entire book.
Fragrant greetings to you
January 19th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Dear Sabina
Yes. And then, what is funny, the different sayings what to do and not to do at the stock market.
like ” join the party when every one else is leaving” or ” do not touch a falling knife”…..
January 19th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Dear Risa
I am convinced that a rough climate has a very strong influence on a plant’s scent and hence the essential oils and absolutes derived from it. Now, I am not so sure about climate change, as there changes are so fast and we should get ready for some changes that affect us heavily. Like 2 degrees more might mean less rain for the Arab peninsula, meaning less Frankincense trees!
Fragrant greetings to you
January 19th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Dear Maria
I do not associate a particular situation with Nietzsche (whose name I tend to write wrongly all the time)… Fragrant greetings from a country that still officially thinks the economic troubles in the US won’t affect it too much.