Rotten beaver, vanilla traps and some thoughts more

Around a weak ago, a group of synthetic beavers walked into an orris garden, sent there by a perfumer. Stupid perfumer thought his little orris garden needed some more depth and a twist to the dirty side. Well, the perfumer still feels the same. He is not entirely pleased with his garden, yet. The entry with its spicy roses and the pepper plants look lovely, but somewhere in the middle, before you enter the little forest in the back, it misses this earthy, animal quality. Thus, he sent his beaver army off and thought that vanilla might be a good companion, too. Eventually, his judgment was right, but the army of beaver trampled down quite a bit of his nicely arranged garden, leaving his roses untouched, but entirely destroyed his incense corner, and the worst was the vanillin pond where some of the beavers got so depressed that the weakest among them gave up and went there where all beavers have to go one day. And with no one cleaning up this mess, their physical remains remind the gardener that there is be a beaver heavenly paradise where his furry friends dance and sing the songs of eternal happiness and praise true perfume artists.

Well, bottom line of all this: the pepper line and rose start = ok. Orris with incense woody lines, sparkling and radiating =ok. But I still think, there is a touch of deepness missing in the overall composition. And the agarwood is a marvellous scent, deep, intense, lasting, expensive, but to tie it in, to have it there from the very beginning, to prepare the stage with the right light on is a tricky one. Maybe the difficulty is there: You have an image of a scent in your mind, which is not the complete picture, it is a reflection, an abstraction of it. And this abstraction you want to see become reality in a composition, without bending your image. We work on it….

Finally, with the end of this week approaching I need to start some thinking about public appearance, communities and how to get known as niche perfumer. Basically it is about circles, knowing them, entering them and leaving them. Marketing again….