Muñeca nocturna

Capítulo 16

The music that came through; he heard whispers close to his ear, he heard "I love you," and realized that he was happy because of...

Fu's hair stood on end, right now, at this very moment! He opened his eyes and sighed with joy. This...

This perfume is unlike anything people have ever seen before. It's not an odor-repelling perfume, and it's not a bathroom product!

This is a completely new kind of thing; it can create an entire world, a magically wealthy world.

People instantly forget the unpleasant things around them, feeling how rich, happy, and free they are.

How perfect...

The bristling hairs on Baldini's arms softened, and a captivating tranquility took hold of him. He picked up the...

He took a knife and cut open the leather, specifically goatskin, along the edge of the table. He then placed the cut pieces of leather...

He poured the perfume into a glass bowl and added fresh perfume. He covered the bowl with a glass plate, then removed the remaining perfume and poured it into two containers.

He took a small bottle, labeled it "A Night in Naples," and then turned off the light and left.

go.

He said nothing while dining with the lady upstairs. He made no mention of the sacred decision he had made that afternoon.

His wife said nothing. She was satisfied because she sensed he was pleased. He also did not return to Notre Dame.

"Go and thank God for making his character stronger." Indeed, for the first time that day, he even forgot his nightly prayers.

The following morning, Baldini went straight to Grimaldi, and first he paid for the goatskin, without any discount.

He paid in full, without any deductions, concealment, or haggling. He then invited Grimaldi to the "Silver Tower" hotel for a bottle of white wine.

He bought him wine and redeemed Grenouille from him. Of course, he didn't reveal why he redeemed him, or why...

They needed him. He lied, saying he had accepted a large order for saffron bark and therefore needed an assistant who wasn't yet a fully trained master.

He needed a content young man to do the most mundane work for him, like cutting leather. He also asked for a bottle of wine.

He offered twenty livres as compensation for the inconvenience caused by Grimaldi's lack of Grenouille. Twenty livres

"That's a lot of money!" Grimald immediately agreed. So the two went together to the tannery. Strangely enough, Grimald...

Noye was already waiting, his luggage packed. Baldini paid twenty livres, feeling he had made the best deal of his life.

Yi's smugness immediately led him away.

Grimald was convinced he had made the best deal of his life, and upon returning to the Silver Tower Hotel, he drank...

He ordered two bottles of wine. Later, around noon, he went to the "Golden Lion" Hotel on the other side of the river to drink.

He got extremely drunk, and later that night he wanted to go back to the "Silver Tower" hotel but ended up on Rue de Geoffroy Lanier.

I got confused with Rue Nonaidière and thus couldn't get directly to Pont Marie as I intended, but unfortunately ended up at...

He reached the Olm pier, from where he plunged headfirst into the water with a splash, as if landing on a soft bed.

Just like before. He drowned instantly. The shallow river carried him away, past the moored cargo boat, and into the current.

In the swifter middle of the river, a considerable amount of time passed, until the following morning, when the tanner Grima, or more precisely...

It was his soaking wet body that drifted westward.

As he silently crossed the trading bridge without hitting a pier, Grenouille was exactly twenty meters away from him.

A bed. He had set up a wooden plank bed in a corner behind the Baldini factory; this bed belonged to him, and at this time...

His former master was floating down the Seine, limbs outstretched. Grenouille curled up contentedly, shrinking into a flat...

Lice. He began to sleep, sinking deeper and deeper into himself, victoriously entering the fortress of his heart, where...

Inside the fortress, he dreamt he was attending a celebratory feast of scents, a celebration of himself with cigarettes and...

A grand carnival filled with the aroma of medicine.

With Grenouille joining the workforce, Giuseppe Baldini's shop began to rise to become a national and even European establishment.

The shops of the continent's prestige. The Persian bells are no longer silent; the mandarin ducks in the shops on the trading bridge are once again releasing their fragrance.

water.

The first night, Grenouille concocted another "Neapolitan Night" in a large glass bottle, and the next day...

More than eighty bottles were sold, packaged in small perfume bottles. The perfume's reputation spread at an astonishing speed. Chénier counted the money.

Their eyes grew glazed over from counting so many, and their backs ached from constantly bowing at a 90-degree angle. Everyone who came here...

They were noble ladies and gentlemen, or at least their servants. Once, the door even flew open.

It opened with a click, and Count Argentson's valet entered, calling out to him like the other valet.

He needed five new bottles of perfume, and afterwards, Chénier trembled with fear for a full fifteen minutes because of this Jean-Jacques de Argentino.

The Duke was a high-ranking official of His Majesty the Emperor and Minister of Defense, a powerful figure in Paris.

While Chénier was alone in the shop dealing with the throngs of customers, Baldini and his new apprentice were busy...

In the factory, he always used the excuse of "division of labor and rationalization" to justify this situation.

Defense. He disowned his guild, having patiently watched for years as the mainstream hostile figures of Pellissier came from his side.

He was driving customers away, causing his business to decline. Now he could no longer tolerate it. He accepted the challenge...

These arrogant nouveau riche retaliated, and they retaliated using their own methods: during every peak tourist season,

Every month, or even every week if necessary, he releases new perfumes and other gadgets! This requires him to make full use of his...

He believed he had to rely solely on his own creative talents. Therefore, he felt he had to—without the support of a master assistant—to develop his own creative abilities.

Water production, while Cheniere was in charge of sales. This modern method could be used to transform the history of cosmetics stores.

To start a new chapter, to eliminate the competitors, and to become a millionaire—that's why he consciously emphasized "people."

He believed that his old friend had also made a contribution to this multi-millionaire.

A few days ago, if Master Baldini had said such things, Chénier would have taken it as a sign of starting to go mad.

"He's now terminally ill," he might think, "until he finally puts down the skirt in his hand..."

"It won't be long." But he stopped thinking about it now. He simply didn't have time to think about it; he was too busy. He was completely...

I'm incredibly busy every day. So much so that I'm too exhausted to empty the cash drawer every night.

He kept one copy. He would never doubt that Baldini produced a new perfume from the factory almost daily.

It's not surprising that it was prepared this way.

What kinds of perfumes and cosmetics are these?! Not only are there top-of-the-line perfumes, but also moisturizing ginseng powder...

Soap, shampoo, lotion, oils—everything that should smell sweet now exudes a completely new fragrance.

The taste is different from before, more wonderful than before. For everything, truly everything, even for Ba...

One day, in a moment of high spirits, Erdini produced a perfumed hairband, and customers rushed to buy it as if bewitched.

They bought it without even asking the price. Everything Baldini produced became a bestseller. This achievement...

It had such a profound effect that Chénier regarded it as a natural event and no longer sought its origins.

Source. For example, the new apprentice, that clumsy dwarf, lived in the workshop like a dog; sometimes when the master came out,

People could see him standing in a secondary position at the back, wiping glasses and washing white bowls—if someone told Xie...

Nie, he simply wouldn't believe that the business's legendary success was related to this guy.

Of course, this dwarf was involved in all of this. Baldini delivered the cosmetics to Chénier in the shop for sale.

It was just part of what Grenouille had concocted behind closed doors. Baldini couldn't smell it anymore.

He was forced to choose from a selection of Grenouille's exquisite perfumes, a truly daunting task. This magical...

An apprentice can provide formulas to all the perfume experts in France, and each one is of high quality, not low-quality, and never duplicated.

Inferior or generic products—meaning he cannot provide them with the formula—that is, the molecular formula, because…

Grenouille still formulated his perfumes using that chaotic, completely unprofessional method, Bardí.

Ni had already noticed that he seemed to have haphazardly and carelessly mixed the various ingredients together. Regarding this unorthodox approach...

Even if the operation cannot be inspected, it should at least be understood. Therefore, one day Baldini asked Grenouille, he

He was required to use a balance, measuring cup, and dropper when preparing mixtures, even if he considered them unnecessary; he was also required to develop this habit.

He was used to not treating alcohol as a flavoring agent, but as a solvent, which had to be added later; and finally, he was asked to do it slowly.

Calm and unhurried. Operating with the complete integration of skill and artistry.

Grenouille complied. For the first time, Baldini was able to observe the magician's individual actions.

And he wrote them down. He sat beside Grenouille with a dip pen and paper, taking notes and repeatedly reminding him to slow down.

Quickly determine how many grams of this ingredient, how many marks are on that ingredient, and how many drops of the third ingredient are needed before putting them into the preparation bottle.

Using this particular method—that is, by analyzing a process retrospectively using the same approach—Bardi

Ni finally mastered the synthetic procedure, a process that would have been impossible without this method in the past.

How Grenouille could create perfume without a synthetic process remains a mystery to Baldini, and even more so...

It's a miracle, to be precise, but he has at least now written this miracle into a molecular formula, and to some extent...

This was a comfort to his yearning for order and saved his understanding of perfume from utter collapse.

Baldini gradually persuaded Grenouille to reveal all the perfume formulas he had ever invented, and eventually even...

He was forbidden in Baldini from bringing a dip pen and paper, to carefully observe with the eyes of the Hundred-Eyed Giant, and to proceed step by step.

He formulated new perfumes by recording the steps. He compiled his notes—which quickly yielded dozens of molecular formulas—

He meticulously copied the text into two separate notebooks using an almost engraved handwriting style, locking one of the notebooks away.

The fireproof money box, and another one he always carried with him, even sleeping at night. Now, he only needs to be willing, he...

You can witness and experience the miracles of Greneau firsthand. When Chi first experienced these miracles, he was incredibly excited. He believed...

Now, with his notebook of molecular formulas, he could dispel the terrible creative chaos that arose from the hearts of his apprentices.

Even he was no longer clumsily watching in amazement, but meticulously observing and recording, participating in creative activities.

In fact, this also had a comforting effect on Baldini, boosting his confidence. After a while, he even thought...