Trial insights

We tend to cover our naked bodies. Some of us do it with good reason, in the case of other individuals it is a pity. For the later, the hidden skin increases the interest, setting a series of imaginative visualizations in move, which do not fit with reality and quite often lead to thorough disappointment once visualization meets reality. In my perfumery work, visualization plays a role, too, not a key role, but still. Usually, at the end of a series of many, many trials ultimately finding their way to the local waste disposal where they are burnt and thoroughly oxidized, I think about how to visualize a particular scent. Not that I have done this many times, yet! My creative process is somewhat slow and I do not expect to create hundreds of perfumes in my life that need pictures.
Thus, I thought I share a visualization trial for the L’air du désert marocain that I developed and then threw away again. Back then, a while ago, I thought a nice picture might be the sunset in the evening, over semi-desert, the time when the earth is still gleaming but the air has already cooled down. Fragrance of spices and earthy sand fills the air. (I posted about it before… the picture guiding me in the development of this scent was slightly different: A bed in Marrakech, window open, moon raising, scents from the nearby desert and the spices from the streets below….)

Thus, I took a sunset over a rather flat savannah, fooled around with the colours (2 hours), choose the appropriate chest (2 hours), brought the upper body to perfection with photoshop (5 hours) and tried various modifications (5 hours). And deleted my idea from my brain (5 sec). It did not fit somehow. Too…naked? Leaving too little room for imagination? Next was the moon raising picture that you all know, kind of 70-ies minimalism, red and blue tones, no skin, no nothing, but leaving an entire Saharan desert for imagination