Chapter 18 The Trip to Grasse
For some reason, many people think that talented perfumers have a particularly sensitive sense of smell. Perhaps there are many people, like Cheng Fengchun's wife, who began to understand the profession of perfumer because of "Perfume: A Story of a Murderer". However, Mrs. Cheng reads novels, while most people read movies adapted from this novel.
The male protagonist in the movie can smell the scent of a girl a few blocks away, and his nose is more sensitive than that of a police dog. However, the scene settings in the movie are far from reality, and it can be said that they already belong to the category of science fiction.
In real life, most people have similar odor abilities. Every person with a normal sense of smell will have their own series of sensitive smells. Some are sensitive to wine, some are food, some may be flowers, etc. Sensitivity to specific odors is normal and they will not have special odor abilities because of this.
Moreover, if Zuo Zai has such a special function, he probably doesn’t need to go to Cheng Fengchun’s showroom to be discovered to be able to refresh the talent.
The real situation is that the perfumer's sense of smell can be the same as that of ordinary people, or slightly better than that of ordinary people. In the final analysis, when the perfumer works, he keeps the spices at hand and just picks them up and smells them. There is really no need to have a nose that can smell a few kilometers away.
Learning to be a perfumer is originally a long and boring process.
In this process, the ability that needs to be learned and mastered is spice scent. Perfumers need to remember the taste of each spice, distinguish the difference between spices, and after smelling the smell, they can find out what spice is from their memory. The basic method of spice scenting requires practicing to learn two things. First, you must naturally remember the taste of spices, and then you must say the corresponding name of the spice.
Zuo Zai's talent is actually in the memory of spices. After smelling it once, she can remember the fragrance in her mind, and it will not get mixed up just because she smells it too much.
No matter how young Zuo was, he never felt that there was anything special about his nose.
Zuo Zai likes to sleep on his parents' bed because it smells like his parents, which makes people sleep very peacefully. But don't children have similar hobbies? Who doesn't run over to his parents' bed? Can't others smell it? Anyway, Zuo Zai only sleeps on his parents' bed, and she dislikes her from other people's sleeping on her bed.
Zuo Zai always remembers the smell of the early morning after the rain in his hometown yard. The rain and dew are mixed together, and the breeze is blowing, and the sun shines through the gaps on the osmanthus tree. The vines next to it are full of mature green grapes. Zuo Zai has loved smelling the smell of the early morning after the rain since he was a child. When he woke up, he opened the window and took a deep breath.
But who doesn’t think the good air in the morning makes people feel refreshed? Every time, Zuo Zai smells the morning smell by the window on the second floor for a while, and the smell of mother making baked wheat cakes downstairs floats upward from the window on the first floor. Smelling the smell, Zuo Zai runs downstairs to the kitchen downstairs. The wheat cakes are Zuo Zai’s favorite breakfast, and it smells that the wheat cakes on this day are a little more scorchy than usual, and they will definitely be crispy and adorable, and saliva is almost flowing down.
At this time, the left runs down the stairs a little faster than usual. But which child won’t run towards his own exclusive food? Can this be considered a talent?
To be honest, sometimes, people's talent is there, and no one tells you, you may not know that it is a talent.
In "Perfume: A Story of a Murderer", the first perfume chef of the male protagonist told him: "If you haven't been to Grass, you can't say that you have learned perfume." In fact, before 2002, Grass did not have any perfume academy. When you go to Grass to learn perfume, you have to learn from the master. Generally, you need to study for six years. In the past few years, you learned the basic skill of spice sniffing.
Strangely, this basic skill that others need to train for several years, Zuo will master it in a few hours. The taste of each spice is basically "not forgotten" after the nose. If Zuo Zai said it herself, she would not think that it has anything to do with the talent of the perfumer, it is entirely because her memory is extraordinary and she can remember it after smelling it.
In February 2002, during the Chinese New Year in China, grasse-institute-of-perfumery was established. It was said that it was a college, but it actually did not issue any useful diplomas. After all, the perfume was still vocational education.
Cheng Fengchun has been to Glass twice. The first time was when Mrs. Cheng came to pilgrimage after reading the novel "Perfume". The subtitle of the novel is a story about a murderer. You can tell at a glance that this book is actually a bit suspense and horror. The box office of the filming of a suspense movie in 2006 was also very good. But Cheng Fengchun and his wife found that the real Glass gave people a different feeling from the novel. Glass in May was simply a sea of roses.
For decades, every May, Grass held a Rose Festival. Depending on the weather and flowering period, the festival is not fixed, so it is also luck to encounter it. Mrs. Cheng was deeply fascinated by Grass' roses and other spices, and started her own perfumer study in Grass.
The second time, Cheng Fengchun followed his wife back to Grass to find the raw material for making perfume - "Queen Grass" (centifolia May Rose). The essential oil extracted from this rose is one of the important ingredients of Queen's fragrance.
Based on the purpose of cultivating Zuo Zai as his wife's successor, the Grass Perfume Academy had just been established, and Cheng Fengchun took Zuo Zai and his family to Grass.
Grass is a French tourist destination and a famous perfume capital. Grass's three famous perfume factories have long built perfume into the tourism industry, with various special tourism projects such as "perfume masters" for pilgrims to choose from. Although the most famous is rose, Grass's famous flowers are not only roses, but also the Jasmine Festival in August.
However, because Cheng Fengchun was too impatient, he chose this February, which was really cold and there was no good flower.
Cheng Fengchun originally thought that he would bring Zuo Zai to Glass to see, and Zuo Zai would like to incense like his wife. But now there were no flowers at all. Once he arrived at Glass, Cheng Fengchun would smell several high-concentration fragrances for Zuo Zai to avoid being smoked, which made Zuo Zai only leave a "scent of disgusting" impression of Glass.
This directly led to Zuo Zai's resilience since then. Cheng Fengchun could only sigh for his anxiety, and the result of bringing Zuo Zailai Grass was completely contrary to his original intention.
Zuo Zai came here and almost started to hate the profession of perfumer. Fortunately, Zuo Zaiya was only 12 years old and there were many possibilities in the future.
Zuo Zai's talent for smell and memory allowed her to have the basic skills of a senior perfumer without any effort. However, having basic skills alone can only be described in three words - but also as a whole.
After completing the scent of spices, perfumers begin to need some artistic talent and imagination, ord (scent).accord is a word that is accord, and it is not the meaning of remembering that it is consistent. What does the ording-to have to do?
However, Zuo Zai knew this word entirely because he wanted to know Chopin. It was not the "goodbye Chopin" online, but the real music master Chopin. accord means chords in the piano, and for perfume, it is a fragrance.
To listen to the chords, the fragrance is to smell which spices are put together. Although the names are the same, the difficulty is completely different. To put it bluntly, how many pianos are strong? Compared with the types of spices, the number of keys is not on the same order of magnitude.
The imagination is very strong, mainly in terms of funny things, but in terms of artistic talent, the talent is really not.
If Zuo Zai has the slightest talent in perfume art, Mao Shit Candle will not be her first perfume "work". This may also be related to the funny imagination.
In Grass, assistant perfumers need to create perfumes that can be recognized in order to take off their "assistant" hat and become a real perfumer. For perfumers, creating their own fragrance is an extremely important upgrade, and assistant perfumers can forget to eat and sleep. But Zuo is not interested in this matter. She just likes to do something to restore the taste of life - such as cat shit.
Cheng Fengchun brought his family to France this time and drove two RVs. These two RVs were definitely shocked by Zuo Zai. Zuo Zai was 12 years old in China and had never seen a RV. Even if she had seen it, it would not be the way she went to France to ride. The two RVs that the Cheng family bought in Europe were customized according to the requirements of Cheng Fengchun's eldest son, and the other was customized by Cheng Lie.
From the outside, there is no difference between the two cars, both of which are two-story RVs.
Cheng Dazi’s luxury RV mainly considers functionality. There are three rooms on the second floor, one king-size room (bed 2.03 meters * 1.93 meters), one qeen-size room (bed 2.03 * 1.52 meters), one twin-size room (two 1.88 meters * 0.99 meters beds), two bathrooms. (If you think the size of these beds is not particularly exaggerated, you must first understand that this bed is in a room on a car.)
There is a small bedroom on the first floor. If it is designed, it should be a nanny room, a large living room, a small kitchen and a small dining room. The kitchen cannot be expanded, but if one side panel of the car is opened, it can be turned into a "roof" and then a standard restaurant that can accommodate ten people to eat. In addition, if the barbecue grill is taken out, the kitchen should also be considered to be expandable.
Cheng Lie's RV only has one room and one bathroom. But Zuo Zai thinks that Cheng Lie's RV can only be described as terrible. Except for the configuration of the rooms and bathrooms, the others are all sold in minutes.
The first floor of Chengjia Da Gongzi RV is a garage of Cheng Lie RV. The driver must be driving the RV when going out. If the second young master of Cheng's family wants to go somewhere to go, he will drive the Aston Martin sports car in the garage. The remaining area on the first floor is a small bathroom, and a large living room with a long bar. The feeling of having a party on the first floor of Cheng Lie RV is definitely much better than in an ordinary apartment - whose apartment can have a scenery along the way for guests to enjoy?
In addition to the room on the second floor, there is a large audio and video room, with three or four types of game consoles alone. In addition, the most crazy thing about Cheng Lie’s RV on the second floor is that there is a jacuzzi bathtub that can open the ceiling and take a bath while watching the stars. In 2002, the jacuzzi bathtub was not yet installed at home, and they had already installed it in the car. How could it not be scary?
If Cheng Fengchun hadn't let her smell the spices that were too high in Grass, Zuo Zai's trip to Grass would have been perfect. Apart from sleeping time, she and Xiao Nai were both in Cheng Lie's car, and she played various game consoles in the audio-visual studio, playing in a dim and dark way. Such a trip was definitely unprecedented for Zuo Zai. Even Emirates' first class airline, there was no such good configuration, not to mention that she had never even been in the first class.
Chapter completed!