… from basenotes.
Vetiver dance is featured in New In Niche on basenotes. “slow dancing in a burning room” is how Michelyn would describe Vetiver dance. I invite you to read the entire article and thoughts on width of niche. Oh wow… niche is bigger than you’d think!
Click here (yes here) for the article.
enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!
it is a wide world…. the alps seen from 2600 meter above sea, at Bornengo pass
This morning was filled with ah’s and oh’s. First I learned that a sample discovery set might also (better) be called presentaion samples. hmm. I need a ghostwriter.
Yes, I got the Luckyscent newsletter and watched me smiling from my computer screen. Maybe you want to see me smiling, too? Here is the link to the Newsletter on Luckyscent’s webpage. aehm….. and yes: this is the chance to register. And it WAS the chance to get a little gift, when preordering Vetiver dance there. Presentation samples = Sample discovery sets. So you know now, why I made a few of these ;-)Â here’s last week’s post on it.
Unfortunately, all of them seem to have gone by now when looking at the Luckyscent website.
Thus, today we will make more Vetiver dance. And the W.-factor has to fold white card board boxes. Talking cheap labor!
When you meet the W.factor in LA, please give some cheers for there are many boxes to fold these days…..
The more sushi restaurants there are in Zurich, the smaller the sushis seem to get. That’s the quintessence of yesterdays dining out. Indeed, often quality and quantity do not seem to go hand in hand. Except maybe when it comes to CDs or cars. But even there, I’d guess a truly handmade car beats what comes out on the conveyor band of the factories these days.
Anyhow.
After yesterday’s post and comments I started fiddling with words in my mind. So I am developing and throwing away ideas like socks. Or like the stock market goes up and down.
Anyhow.
Unfortunately, my words are in German…..
Weisse Knopsen empfangen
prickelnd erotisches Verlangen
Vetiver, roh und schwarz
eng umschlungen pocht das Herz
die Nacht ist hier
dieser Tanz gilt dir
And this is what bablefish makes out of it:
White received Knopsen (that’s wrong it should say white buds receive)
tingling erotic desire
Vetiver, raw and black
insists closely embrace the heart (I would rather say in close embracement the heart is beating hard)
the night here
this dance is you (Nope, better is this dance is yours)
well…
Sometimes I am almost jealous on my fellow bloggers who are have the pleasures of reviewing fragrances. I imagine with an endless stream of new appearances and remakes of the remake there is a Mississippi like stream of inspiration facing you in your perfumery blogging. Well, just sometimes. Because mostly I am very happy not being a critic myself. At least when it comes to this blog.
AromaX’s post of today is dealing with a fragrance, and I enjoy reading it a lot, but actually his post is a reflection that goes much further than describing individual notes. For there is something wrong with pyramides. And notes. And what folks, perfumers and marketing profs will tell you. Indeed, these scent pyramides are somewhat useless.
What help is it to learn that fragrance vetiver xyz features pepper, grapefruit and clary sage on top of its pyramide. Nothing, I’d say. You need to know how these notes are woven into this fragrance’s fabric, how the perfumer set the accents using other notes. And what is pepper for me that vanishes and maybe nice because it complements a green citrus line, is a dear memory to others, of weaking up next to a stranger after a glorious night. Thus, why pyramides at all? I guess just a desperate trial to bring order in something that can’t really be ordered. It would be fun to search for identical pyramides and test the fragrances next to each other. Clones? Hardly.
The full post dealing with the question “what is wrong with the fragrance pyramide?” you find following this link to AromaX’s blog.
The sun, reflected by water of a mountain lake, Gotthard region, August 2008.
Three weeks and two more days before I will fly off the the US. Thus, phase III (final preparations) has started. Besides getting bottles and boxes ready for their journey west, I preparing some other stuff. Like searching the previous versions of the vetiver dance. And I found the mother of all vetiver dance trials: my gym scent version 1.o
(the gym scent, which was initially just a trial out of the blue, is partly described here, following this link )
Versions 1 up to 7 of the vetiver trials, an erratic hiphop, dance are in dilution since yesterday, maturing until October when I will show them at Luckyscent’s. And I will show some pure materials that you find in Vetiver dance. Besides these preparatory measures, the perspective is changing already to 2009, looking out for yet another exciting year, with more partners , more bottles, and more happy encounters I hope.
Thus, while looking out, I also wonder about the next projects, especially after this Saturday’s visitor. We had guests and were sniffing the hell out of my bottle collection and before going to bed, I could not but write down some components….C12, rose oil, geranium, okoumal, orris, violett…..ah: I need a second life.
Finishing a large pile of Tauer Perfumes sample discovery sets is on the to do list today.
And for speedy production, we do 50 batches at once, laying the folded boxes on the floor and filling them one by one with samples. Thus, making sure that neither me nor my cheap labor force (the W.-factor) make a mistake and forget one.
The beauty of large, repetitive patterns.
Picture shows 50 sample discovery sets, on the floor, with the Le Maroc pour elle inside.
Saturday will be sniffing fun. But more about this later…enjoy your upcoming weekend!
I am cleaning up some folders on my computer, putting the most important stuff in one folder, allowing me to extend my backup routine and do a simple full scale copy of the most important stuff to bring it out of the house on a regular basis.
So far, my back up strategy consisted of printing formulas and store them outside of my house, do gradual back-up of all files on the computer on isolated hard disks with every computer start and store the website data on my hosting server and make local copies every week.
Now, I have the most important files (about 7 giga) also outside of the house, on a flash drive, after a friend told me about burning appartments next door, and the smoke being worse than the fire and the water, destroying everything.
While going through the data, I fell onto a folder with a few birthday scents. I completely forgot about them. one of the formula consisted of cocoa absolute, dark cistus, patchouli, cinnamon notes, vetiver, complemented by green spices and light rose notes. It was a birthday scent, that I called aqua tenebrae, water of darkness, and I remember it vaguely as being ok…
Looking at some other formula, about 4 years old, I realize how far I have wandered just to come back to the same ideas. The same ideas but implemented differently, using a different palette. Sometimes cleaning up is fun. and now…. back to boxes and flyers and ribbons.
Picture: the sticker for the birthday scent, 4 years old…
Fragrance discount store seem to pop up like mushrooms in autumn everywhere. You own a bottle of xyz, you have a computer: And there we go! And we have another super trooper fragrance store around the e-corner. I just wonder why a shop like fragrancex would want to present a niche within a niche within a niche scent. It does not make sense to me.
Now, if you ever come around any of my scents on fragrancex or any other similar site… forget it! It is either not the real thing, or they can’t sell it to you. Now, to be honest, I am somewhat annoyed. Thus, I just joined their waiting list for my Rêverie au jardin. (if you search for andy tauer on yahoo.com you will find this treasure). I can’t wait for their price.
While I write theses lines, another super trooper personalized spam comment backlinking to thisandthat wants to appear on this blog…hehehe…and off you go, you stupid comment, sent to spam comment hell.
 Picture: mushrooms, popping up in August 2008, above Airolo at 1800 meters above sea level
This month’s magazine of the German Duftarchive features Africa, with “L’air du désert marocain” finding its place on the High Atlas. And immediately, it is there again, this disease that you can’t be cured off. “male d’Africa”, this desire to visit and come back to mankind’s cradle, Savanah that has seen our first steps on two legs, a trait that allows us to walk more effectively and to watch the sunsets better. Ah well…
For my readers in Germany and Switzerland: here is the link to Duftarchive’s magazine (German) featuring Africa.
And for all readers not familiar with German: I am running around with a 12% dilution of the fragrance that has the working title “gabriel”. Amazing how different it is compared to a previously tried 18% dilution. A touch styrax in the back (soft gentle elegant leather) comes out much more pronounced. There is -in this concentration- a distant relation to the hyacinth and mechanic fragrance. I prefer 18%. There the lily of the valley finds its place better, between the green rose, powdery jasmin and fresh lilac.
Please give me some more time to do some thinking… I have my ideas for this scent but want to allow them to settle first. In the mean time:
Let’s enjoy a peaceful picture from Africa:
 Picture: man selling cactus fruit seen in Tunis 2005, by Andy.
Autumn is around the corner here in the middle of Europe. Even if the days are still warm and bright, the sun changed its light, and the trees get ready for their autumn fashion show, featuring colors, colors and more colors.
Every year the same story: Looking back and wondering. “ok….that’s it, right? Getting ready for winter, right? Time to think in wool sock categories again…
Time to prepare the house.”
That’s what we did! With the sample and perfume business growing, it got time to invest in some infrastructure: A working table. Allowing us to use the living room to live and watch TV again and have guests without having to scavenge packaging material from everywhere. The working bench needed more space, thus we got some more infrastructure…
This week sees me working on a CV that needs to be done by Wednesday…grummel. I am not good in writing serious CV’s…somehow I can’t take things seriously enough when it comes to me. hehehehe and schwuubiduuuuuuu…..
Picture upload by myself, petunia in summer light.
