Your chance to learn more about Vetiver dance, my newest baby, to be launched October 4: Please follow this link to Elena’s Perfumeshrine blog and make sure you take your CHANCE TO WIN ONE OF THREE BOTTLES Vetiver dance there!
!!Attention!! The drawing is on the perfume shrine site! If you want to be included: Do not comment here, but rather there ;-)
Have a wonderful weekend!
The sun is shining and the summer shows us what we will miss soon again. When packing the first 60 bottles this morning, the sun was shining right into the bottles when putting them into the box.
Lovely.
(Of course, they won’t be exposed for a long time).
Thus: Enjoy this picture and an interesting review on one thousand scents.
I went to bed with Gabriel yesterday; Gabriel was version 8.0 and in a sense I slept in angel land, with dreams waking me up again. Sleeping is like being dead, except for the fact that you dream and that you will (usually, but no warranty on that!) wake up again. In a sense, this is comfortable as I rarely worry about my being not conscious when sleeping.
Gabriel is about Lily of the valley.
Gabriel version 8 is beta, like bloglines.com is beta and unchanged since months. Gabriel is opulent, to say the least. I used it at a perfume concentration (around 30%), and it lasted into the morning. Gabriel is about green lily of the valley, roses, rich flowers.
Gabriel is a consequence of vetiver dance and the other way round. I used what I learned when playing around the lily of the valley for the vetiver fragrance. And the vice versa.
Slowly but surely seeing the vetiver bottles filled I will starting thinking more about gabriel (yep.yesterday.200 of the vetiver dance filled.I couldn’t lift my toothbrush anymore.)
Next: Thinking dilution factor. Extrait versus edp versus edt…
The meditative bottle pouring, planned for yesterday evening, took not place, but instead I found myself meditatively translating English text that describes the idea behind the Vetiver fragrance to German. Which is not easy, even if you have written the English version yourself. Languages differ by more than just words.
I will use the text in the coming days, together with the shop in Zurich, and my point of sales in Germany (Berlin , Munich, Bruchsal) to present the Vetiver dance to a German speaking public, on the internet, for preordering. And I need to talk to the German and Swiss press, in one way or the other. Thus, I needed this text urgently.
While translating and later packing envelops for the post office today, I watched the Dow sink again, wondering where we are heading because we have entered an interesting technical pattern (triangle). Well, I guess: fundamentally, we are still in grey territory. So this one is for Simone… the difference between grey and sunny is a glimpse of an eye.
 clouds over the Alp, right before the sun breaks through.
(close to Gotthard, August 2008, temperature inside clouds below 0°C)
This is a post Alpine post…the two days in the Alps were just perfect. Starting in Airolo at 1200, through forests, accompanied by butterflies, hiking upwards, for hours to get to the hut, almost in the clouds, at 2570. And yes, in order to answer Marianne’s question: We had a touch snow over night. Just enough to cover the mountains in a white night shirt.
The next day brought us further up, peak Beremengo (or something like that), then down and up again and then down down down to Andermatt.
While the legs had to move the body, the brain started wondering around, in sort of trance. This is the nice part of hiking: It makes your mind free to think, and thus I meandrated… from recipes for ground hogs (yes…hungry!), to soaps for Christmas, and text for vetiver dance…
I will continue pouring bottles today for a true labeling and packaging feast towards the end of the week. And hopefully, one day soon will see me posting on something else again!
 on the way up…
 a look into a cool but sunny morning
and finally….
 on the peak at 2630
and fat folks on our way down…
Yep… you guessed right: I am busy pouring vetiver dance into bottles and started packing the first bottles.
The next two days will see me hiking in the Ticino; with a night in a hut (cap cadlimo, Flikr Link) at 2600 meters. Time to relax and think about where to hike in California ;-)
Have a fragrant weekend.
And yes: The WINNER IS GALILEOSDAUGHTER. Please mail me your coordinates at perfumer(at)tauerperfumes.com
Congratulation!
Picture: the first bottles of vetiver dance
It arrived yesterday: A heavy box filled up with Vetiver dance flyers.
I love it! And it passed the test together with the canary yellow-golden ribbon I chose secretly; the combination works lovely, too!
 Picture: Vetiver dance in its box with the yellow ribbon.
And finally, everything is in place to bravely take the next step: Filling up sample vials, and making samples ready! And this is your chance: Leave a comment and I will pick one for the first Sample Discovery Set, containing all samples of my fragrances, including the upcoming Vetiver. (the sample discovery set is no product available internationally. And the vetiver will be available starting October 4 on a regular basis).
Good luck!
Picture: a box full of Vetiver dance flyers
Some may have realized: The W.-factor is growing into a different role these days. Besides helping me to remain on planet earth with both legs, activities include: Sample packaging, picking up flyers (today! hurray!), organizing my boxes, evaluating packaging, commenting on the number of e-mails that I write in which length, and organizing room and stock.
Now, privileged as I am, there are more than one room and quite some shelves to organize there. I have reached a level where I need this help and contrary to rumors the W.-factors does not have to pay for fragrances and is not starving. Thus, one day, I will have a shiny working room with a bench for packing boxes and a TV for watching Simpsons while doing so. As I said before: Privileged.
Cycling France we visited one day an “ecomusee”, a museum of houses that were used up to a few years ago. A few volunteers renovated them and you can get an impression of how life was in the nineteenth and early twentieth century for farmers in France, Brittany.
Not that I wanted to get back there… sleeping in these beds with about 10 children… no way.
But: Live may have become more comfortable but not easier on us. Today’s breakfast table features lots of fibres that you are supposted to eat, maybe a TV in the corner, where you watch CNN, learning facts about life and death, watch the bank stocks tumble to non existence, and the newspaper tells you that eating vegetables may not be as healthy as you always thought.
Picture: Home in Brittany , around 1900, breakfast table, taken by Andy
Picture: Home in Britanny, photo taken at Ecomusée in Britany; the kitchen (front), beds (right side), dining (left side), door to the animals (the photographer’s side)
The W.-factor who will travel with me to Los Angeles for the launch of the Vetiver dance, October 4 and 17, and needs a visa for the US.
But first: Please mark your calendars… October 4 or 17!
Second, the visa is a joke. I do not need one because my passport is older and fits right into an exception of the exception of the exception. The W.-factor has a newer one but not the shiny biometric thing, hence 120 $US, a form and maybe a visit at the embassy will result in a visa….or a new passport will allow him to enter the US without it.
I told him to get a new passport as we will hit the west coast in Spring 09 again.
“What is all this flying west about?”, he goes … and I start explaining about the rose (which rose?) and that when launching a fragrance like the Vetiver dance I like to explain a few things and that I love meeting folks, and show a few new tricks.
“Aha”, he goes and I continue wondering about a little gift to bring with me and what to talk about, knowing that the half life time of all our talking and writing ends in complete oblivion within a few centuries, like the Celts. We are rather clueless about the Celts and any perfume launches back then left zero traces. At least they left a few stones, although I did not figure out what for…
 Picture: Decorated stone inside the Celtic monument, Table des Marchand, picture taken in France, Locmariaquer, 2008
In my somewhat naive trials to reduce my CO2 footprint, I was looking for a replacement material for my styrofoam fluffy packaging material that I used to stuff my parcels to Luckyscent. And found it a while ago.
Corn fluffy things, all natural,CO2 neutral, sustainable, you can eat it, and it is 100% going back to nature, decomposes easily, nourishing our soils without leaving and toxic traces. So I bought a big bag.
 Picture: The fluffy things…
Unfortunately, decomposition starts early, and storing it in the somewhat humid cellar resulted in a continuous shrinking. I am now at about 50% of its original volume. And I realized that it smells, lovely, Maltol like, makes you think of Mr. Mugler’s fluffy Angel in a huge bag. I guess I will go back to styrofoam to protect my big parcels flying over the Atlantic these days.
Otherwise, I am busy as a bee, filling up bottles….have a wonderful weekend!
 Picture: Air du désert marocain, ready to be poured into 50 ml flacons.
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