18

A couple of bottles showed up yesterday on this blog. I assessed some leather approaches in undiluted form. And the winner is: Number 18! It is a joyful and happy moment. Although the maturation process is not finished yet, the winner is clear. Now, there is still work to be done, maybe even more than before. Number 18 needs adjustments. Here some formula highlights:
Its head: Woody, brilliant, spicy, with smoky undertones; birch tar, clary sage, lavender, carrot seed, clove flowers and supporting hydroxycinamaldehyde
Its heart: luxurious and intense leader, warm radiant flowers; bourbon geranium, orange flower, jasmine, cistus and ambrein, supported by geraniol, nerol, isobutylchinolein
Its body: soft, powdery and warm woods with a sweet touch; cedarwood and vetiver, vanillin and methylcyclomyrceton

It is like finding a youngster on a farm, all dirty, sweaty, but with the perfect face for our campaign. He needs some cleaning and education, but we will bring him up there, onto the stage.


Dear bottle 18, it is our pleasure to announce that you have made it. You’ve beaten them all and it is you who we will tutor further. We will take you at the hand and guide the path to the world which will admire your beauty. You convinced the jury with your gold-brown appearance without precipitate. Your fragrance is the taste of adventure, it is the lonesome rider coming home in the evening sun, it is the perfume of a wild nature, of dry grassland with trees raising their arms for the praise of an orange sun at the horizon, it is promise and phantasm. Your temper needs education, though. We have to teach you the soft language of seduction. You will learn how a soft whisper opens doors, and we will tell you when the moment has come to sing out loud. We will work on your lovely head which just needs some colours and fine lines to support your smile. We will not change your heart which is so joyful and young and convinced us of your beauty. We will dress your body in fabrics that let your contours shine through and support your silhouette. Your brilliance still hides behind layers of dust. We will polish you, make you shine and one day you will become pure light, transcendent reflection of the sun’s colours. Please follow us.