perfume - Chapter 10
purchase.
A perfume like Pélissiere can disrupt the entire market. One year, when Hungarian perfumes were all the rage, Bardí...
Nietzsche accordingly stockpiled lavender, bergamot, and rosemary to meet market demand, while Pellissier offered...
"The Fragrance of the Tassels," an extremely strong perfume for a banquet. Everyone suddenly sniffed it like wild beasts, while Baldini...
He had no choice but to repurpose rosemary into hair conditioner and sew lavender into small scent sachets. Conversely, the following year he ordered suitable...
A large quantity of waste incense, catnip, and castoreum. Then Pellisier suddenly conceived the idea of designing a fragrance called "Forest Flower."
The perfume was a huge success. Baldini, through several sleepless nights of experimentation and hefty bribes, finally...
Having learned the ingredients of "Forest Flower," Pellissier then played his trump card, "Turkish Night."
"The Scent of Lisbon," "The Flower of the Palace," or who knows what else. In any case, this person's creation...
Unbridled sexual activity is a threat to the entire industry. People yearn for the restoration of the old, strict guild laws! People yearn for...
This person who does things differently should be dealt with most severely for devaluing perfume! This guy's [something] should be cancelled.
Patent rights, ban him from producing perfume, teach him a lesson! Because of him, this Pellisier is not...
A professionally trained perfumer and glove maker. His father was merely a vinegar brewer, and Pellisier was also a vinegar brewer.
That, and nothing else. Only because he had reason to be exposed to alcohol as a vinegar maker could he smell real perfume.
The experts' forbidden zone, and within this forbidden zone, they do as they please, like a foul-smelling wild beast—why do people in every...
Is a new perfume necessary for the peak tourist season? Is it really necessary? People in the past used violet perfume and other common flowers...
The perfumes produced were very satisfactory, though they might only change slightly every ten years. People would make do with using the divine...
Incense, myrrh, some balms, essential oils, and dried herbs have been used for thousands of years. Even later, when they learned to use...
Distillation is performed using beakers and stills, utilizing steam to extract ethereal oily essences from vanilla flowers and wood, using specimens.
The press extracts the aromatic essence from the seeds, kernels, and shells, or uses carefully filtered oil to stimulate the production of flavorings in the petals.
The variety of perfumes was still limited due to the availability of raw fragrance essences. At that time, it was simply impossible for someone like Pellisier to achieve this, because...
At that time, making even a simple balm required considerable skill, something this vinegar maker could never have dreamed of.
This kind of talent. A person who makes balms must not only be able to distill, but also make ointments, and must also be a pharmacist.
Pharmacist, chemist, craftsman, businessman, humanitarian, and gardener. He must be able to combine lamb kidneys with calf fat.
To distinguish them, one must be able to differentiate between the violets of Victoria and the violets of Parma. He must be fluent in Latin.
He needed to know when to harvest the heliotrope, when the geraniums would bloom, and when the jasmine flowers would appear with the rising sun.
And it lost its fragrance. Clearly, Pellisier knew nothing of this; perhaps he had never even left Paris.
I've never seen a jasmine flower bloom in my life. As for extracting even a small piece of solid fragrance from 100,000 jasmine flowers...
He knew absolutely nothing about the arduous work required for even a few drops of essence. Perhaps the jasmine he saw...
The flower was simply a concentrated, dark brown liquid, contained in a small bottle, which he used to blend his fashionable fragrance.
The other small bottles of water were kept together in the safe. No, not like this ignorant and arrogant young man, Pellissier.
Even in the heyday of handicrafts, he never truly worked hard. Moreover, he lacked all of these qualities: character, upbringing...
A sense of nurturing, contentment, and obedience to the craft. His success in perfume making can be attributed entirely to what happened two hundred years ago.
The genius Maurice Fragonipani—an Italian!—made a discovery: spices can dissolve
The solution is in alcohol. Frangipani transferred his scent powder to alcohol, thus converting it into a volatile liquid.
The method within the body allows fragrance to separate from matter, becoming vibrant and alive, thus inventing purely aromatic fragrances.
In short, perfume was invented. What a brilliant innovation! A groundbreaking achievement! It can be compared to humanity's greatest...
The achievements of the Assyrians inventing writing, Euclidean geometry, Plato's ideals, and the Greeks making wine from grapes are examples of these achievements.
These achievements rival those of the winery. A truly Prometheusian feat!
However, like all great achievements, there is not only a bright side but also a dark side, except for those for humanity.
Just as good deeds can sometimes cause suffering and disaster for humanity, Frangipani's brilliant discoveries have also regrettably resulted in...
The disastrous consequences: because nowadays people have learned to use flowers, herbs, wood, resins, and animal secretions...
The essence of perfume was firmly fixed in the formulation and contained in small bottles, thus the technique of perfume making gradually spread from a few...
It came from a few skilled craftsmen and opened up opportunities for itinerant swindlers, as long as they had a very keen nose.
That's fine, like this stinky Rongpei and Xi'e. He doesn't need to know how the strange things in the vials came about.
They can easily match what he is thinking or what the customer needs based on their sense of smell.
This thirty-five-year-old bastard Pellisier now possesses a fortune certainly greater than that of three generations of his Baldini family.
The wealth accumulated through arduous and painstaking labor is even greater. Moreover, Pellissier's wealth increases daily, while his...
Erdini's wealth, however, was dwindling daily. Such a situation would have been unthinkable in the past! A renowned...
Craftsmen and influential businessmen are now forced to fight for their survival, something that would never have happened a few decades ago!
Since then, a reform fervor has swept across all industries and regions, spreading like a disease—especially in commerce.
In transportation, and across all disciplines, this unbridled pursuit of knowledge, this experimental fervor, this...
Arrogant!
And at this insane speed! Why are so many new roads and bridges being built? What's the purpose?
If we could reach Lyon directly within a week, would that be beneficial? Who would benefit? Who would be exploited? Or would it involve crossing the Atlantic?
The ocean reached the Americas within a month—as if people hadn't lived well without this continent for thousands of years.
What exactly did civilized people lose in the Native American forests or among Black people? They even went to the Lapland...
Lan went there; that place was in the north, a land of ice and snow year-round, inhabited by savages who ate raw fish. They also hoped to find another...
A continent, supposedly in the South Pacific. What a ridiculous idea! Because of other people, the Spanish, damn it.
The British and shameless Dutch did the same, so we had no choice but to fight them, even though we didn't fight at all.
We cannot afford this war. Building a single warship would cost a full 300,000 catties of silver, but the enemy could win with a single cannonball in five minutes.
We could sink it within minutes. Farewell, battleship! This cost will be covered by our taxes. Not long ago, the treasury...
The minister demanded that one-tenth of all revenue be handed over. Even if we didn't hand it over, we would still go bankrupt because of the entire psychological...
The situation has collapsed.
"Man's misfortune stems from his unwillingness to stay in his proper room," Pascal said.
Pascal was a great man, a Frangiopane of thought. He was originally a craftsman, but now he is such a...
No one cares about them anymore. Now they read inflammatory books by Huguenots or the British. Or they...
They write papers or so-called scientific masterpieces, in which they question everything. Nothing is right.
Everything needs a change! Recently, it's been said that very small animals can be kept in a glass of water.
These animals had never been seen before; syphilis is said to be a very common disease, no longer a punishment from God; it is said...
God didn't create the world in seven days, but over millions of years, if He truly is the creator; like us...
People are all savages; we have wrongly educated our children; the earth is no longer as round as it used to be, but rather...
It's square at the top and flat at the bottom, like a watermelon—as if that were important! In every field, people ask questions...
The topic requires in-depth study, exploration, observation, and experimentation. Simply stating what something is and how it is is no longer sufficient; nowadays...
Everything must be proven, preferably through witnesses, data, and some ridiculous experiment. — Diderot, Alambert
Voltaire, Rousseau, and others—even clergy and nobles—were among them! Indeed...
They have already done it, by expressing their own unease about betrayal, their fondness for discussing discontent, and their views on the world.
All their discontent, in a nutshell, extended the chaotic thoughts that occupied their minds to the entire society.
Everywhere you looked, there was a frenzied, bustling scene. Men and women were all reading. Priests were squatting...
In the coffee shop. If the police intervene, arrest one of these high-ranking villains, and throw him in jail, then...
Publishers then voiced their pleas and submitted applications, and the gentlemen and ladies of high society exerted their influence.
The sound continued until the police released the high-ranking villain a few weeks later, or exiled him abroad, where he remained.
And so he could write his polemical pamphlets without hindrance. In high society salons, people continued their endless...
They talked about comet orbits, exploration and research activities, leverage, canal construction, blood circulation, and the Earth.
The diameter.
Even the king ordered a new kind of farce to be performed, an artificial lightning called "electricity": in the palace...
Before his civil and military officials, a man rubbed a bottle, producing sparks, which reportedly deeply moved His Majesty the King.
His great-grandfather, the truly great King Louis-Bardini, reigned under a government that benefited society.
After years of happy days—she would never allow such a performance in front of him! But this is a new era.
Spirituality, everything will end in misfortune!
Because when people can casually and brazenly question the authority of God's church;
When people talk about dynasties and the divine image of kings who largely embody the will of God, it's as if these two are merely...
When people can freely choose from a directory of other forms of government; when people finally
It is astonishing—and has actually happened—that an omnipotent God is considered dispensable, and done so with utmost seriousness.
It is asserted that even without God, there are still systems, rules, and happiness in the world, which derive purely from human innate morality.
And reason... Oh God, oh God! — If everything is upside down, morality is lost, and humanity suffers...
If people are to suffer the consequences of what they themselves deny, then there's no need to be surprised. The outcome will be dire.
People talk enthusiastically about the Great Yellow Star that appeared in 1681, describing it as a star cluster; but this small star...
It was a warning sign from God, because it—as we now know very well—foreshadowed a society
A century of disintegration, fragmentation, and the quagmire of ideology, politics, and religion—a quagmire created by humankind itself.