Splendid in bag

Lewis smelled the aroma of white flowers dissipating in the air, and finally returned to the deep meaning of sandalwood and cedar.

He was a little disappointed, so he didn't speak.

Yang Olive said: "So, this is a floral fragrance. The top notes are fresh and cool with mint, patchouli, and bergamot. The middle is not so cold, with tuberose and jasmine. Unlike other white flower scents, the base notes are sandalwood and cedar, showing a completely different depth from the top notes, and it also brings a little warmth, doesn't it?"

"Well, it seems that you still understand!" Shao Dangui smiled, "What do you think?"

Yang Olive said: "I don't think it has anything to do with the swimming pool."

Shao Dangui shook his head and said, "Look, you still don't understand art."

"If you have to say it, it smells like disinfectant and washing powder." Yang Olive sniffed, "That's a swimming pool."

Shao Dangui didn't want to continue discussing with Yang Olive at all, he just felt that he was playing the piano against the cow, so he asked Lewis: "What do you think?"

Lewis said: "It seems that there is no grass smell?"

Shao Dangui let out an "ah" and said, "That's right... that's right. Just hearing you mention tuberose, jasmine, and gardenia makes me happy. I think these are white flowers, so easy to handle, but I forgot It’s about the grass.”

"Are the white flowers easy to deal with?" Lewis looked out the window, "There are no white flowers in your yard, right?"

"No, but what does it matter?" Shao Dangui smiled suddenly, "You don't think that perfumers just randomly fold flowers from their own yards, and then distill them like in "Perfume"?"

"Of course not." Lewis quickly denied, and only said, "But I see that you are on the mountain, and the transportation is inconvenient. It has only been a few days. Where did you get the raw materials?"

"Actually, I have jasmine essential oil." Shao Dangui said, "It is one of the most expensive essential oils."

"I also discovered that jasmine essential oil is really much more expensive than others! However, jasmine is not expensive!" Yang Olive said, "Why is jasmine essential oil so expensive?"

"Because jasmine does not bloom all year round, the flowering period is short, and it is small, and it is very troublesome to pick. It is labor-intensive. Of course, the most important thing is that the process is complicated and consumes a lot." Shao Dangui said, "A drop of jasmine essential oil It takes 500 jasmine flowers to extract, and the price can be imagined. Not to mention that some jasmines are very expensive in themselves."

Yang Olive asked curiously: "Why is jasmine itself so expensive?"

Shao Dangui didn't answer, but asked, "Do you know which is the best-selling perfume in the world?"

Yang Olive was startled, and said, "Is it Chanel NO.5?"

"It seems that you still understand a little bit!" Shao Dangui nodded and said, "That's right. Did you know that the NO.5 factory in the United States stopped production for a while during World War II?"

"Really?" Yang Olive asked curiously, "Why?"

"Because they need a kind of jasmine essential oil. And they must produce jasmine in Grasse. This kind of jasmine has a special aroma, which is unmatched by jasmine produced in other places. Although the technology is now very advanced, various institutions are also doing it. A lot of experiments were done to analyze Jasmine in Grasse, but no one could find a substitute, let alone at that time." Shao Dangui smiled, "Then, do you know how they solved this problem at that time?"

Yang Olive asked, "How is it?"

Shao Dangui said with a smile: "Their company sent out the vice president. The vice president pretended to be a diplomat with a fake identity document like a spy, and brought a few kilograms of gold to France in exchange for jasmine pure essential oil. Then in this way Sneaked back to America. This is probably the most expensive jasmine essential oil I know."

Yang Olive was also amazed: "Amazing! Awesome!"

Lewis asked: "Then how do you get the other floral scents in your perfume besides jasmine?"

Shao Dangui replied: "Actually, the fragrance of gardenia, jasmine and tuberose can be simulated by combining several ingredients such as nonalactone and styrolactone in different proportions. So in fact, there are no such flowers Yes. But the smell might not be as distinctive as the more expensive distilled oils, so I use essential oils as well.”

Yang Olive was dazed: "Anyway, what you mean is that the smell of grass can also be simulated, right?"

"Well, I'll try to see it." Shao Dangui scratched his head, "Theoretically, it's possible..."

Yang Olive asked Lewis: "Is the smell of green grass important?"

Grass smell, is it important?

Lewis actually didn't know either.

But he remembered that the housekeeper mentioned on the phone that Liu Xiusi specifically said that "compared with the fragrance of flowers, freshly cut grass smells better."

So, the smell of grass is very important to Hughes, right?

The memory with the fragrance of white flowers belongs to Lewis, but Hughes remembers the grass very much.

It is obviously the same scene, but different people will have different memories.

Lewis sat in Shao Dangui's courtyard, closed his eyes, and tasted the silence of this moment with his nose.The air is full of botanical aromas, often exuding fresh greenery.

Is this the smell my brother likes?

What does brother like?

Lewis does not seem to have seriously thought about this issue.

He just subconsciously felt that his brother should not like him.

From a young age, Lao Liu would say to Lewis as if joking: "You can't do this, let alone your brother, even I can't stand it."

"You must work hard, better than your brother."

"You are so weak, your brother must be secretly happy."

Lewis, who was beaten to pieces, took a peek at Hughes, and Hughes did smile in this direction.

"See, he's laughing at you!" Lao Liu said with a smile, "You really can't do it!"

Lewis is familiar with that smile by now.

Hughes always smiled faintly like that.

Five-year-old Lewis fell off the stool, six-year-old Lewis accidentally broke the crayon in his hand... until Lewis was in his twenties and lost money in business, Hughes always looked at him with a faint smile like this.

"This is really looking down on me..." Lewis thought to himself.