Gabriel revisited
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…
August 27th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Hi Andy,
I love the way the progression of your scents develop. Start with one, sense something in it that you want to explore and than develop a new scent. Your scents almost read like a book where what you are smelling leads you to the next chapter of your journey. Absolutely amazing!!
August 27th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Dear Andy when we learn about Gabriel version 8 more?
It has general recognized handwriting TAUERINADE? (I have named so on association with GUERLINADE:-)
And if perfume concentration 30%, what concentration at Extrait concentration?
Hugs
August 27th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Andy, this sounds extremely exciting! I for one cannot wait to smell Gabriel, when the time comes!
Please see your inbox for more :)
Dimitri
August 27th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Andy.
Have you ever considered releasing your fragrances in more than one form (in regards to dilution)?
Alas, I just observed an announcement of Vetiver Dance on the NST blog.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Gabriel sounds beautiful!! Can’t wait to hear (and smell) more!!
August 27th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Gabriel, the Lily-of-the-Valley… a challenge for a perfumer. Nice to see you’ve got that point of skillfulness to challenge the Muguet.
What smell would it be? A Tauer’s Diorissimo? Or as it was with Vetiver - a Muguet with a surprising twist?
Sounds exciting!
Just curious - is it an 8th version? Does it mean just 8th or there were also 1.2, 1.3 etc.?
How’s the rose chypre going?
August 28th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Dear Khaled
Thank you , I am thinking about showing part of the steps towards the Vetiver dance fragrance in LA… indeed a thrilling story, at least for me ;-)
Dear Vladimir
About the Tauerinade… I do not know. I do not think so, I think it is rather unique there, but others with tell better later. Extrait and perfume concentration is actually the same, just a different name.So , i want to try Extrait=perfume=30%, eau de parfum around 17% and eau de toilette, around 8% to see how things develop.
Dear Dimitri
Thank you! Checked the inbox and understand!
Dear Zeram
So far… no, not really, one scent = one dilution. Things would get rather complicated in a sense. But this might be a project for later!
Dear Aromax
thank you for the flowers, but : just because it is there, I would not go so far to tell you that I mastered it…
8th version means there were also 1.2…
August 28th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Sounds exciting, Gabriel of the valley and I’d like to learn more about how this angel descends from fragrance’s heaven. And how about the oily hyacinth or the eau d’Ă©pices or the chypre? I know good things need their time and time is rather limited for us earthlings. It’s a pity that I haven’t the chance to be in LA when you let folks smell various stages of your scents. I’m going to be in ZRH then. Wishing your days and nights last more than 24 hours to include all and every of your dreams.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Dear Stephan
Thank you ! The next time when you are in Zurich, let me know, please. It would be my pleasure meeting you. Can’t you just fly the other way round when flying to Zurich? Thus, you would end up in LA and could then continue to Zurich ;-)
August 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Andy, that would be a great idea if there were supersonic and affordable flights to circumvent the globe, or if I were an airplane fetishist. Since neither is the case in this lifetime, I’d be prepared to wait and do it in another lifetime if you promiss that you would be around too. Agreed ?
August 29th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I love lily of the valley … we had this flower growing in the garden when I was a child, and my grandmother had lily of the valley bath products … its fragrance has always meant spring to me.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
“To die, to sleep—
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause. ”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, l. 62-70 (1604).
for you and W, kisses Simone