Floating Perfume Shop

The famous perfume brand Lotus held its autumn new product launch conference in C City.

The venue was located in the lobby on the first floor of the Marriott Hotel, and a large number of celebrities and fellow top perfumers were invited, including all the senior executives of Lotus.It was pouring rain outside the venue, but the indoor lights were warm and bright. The hostess was wearing a strapless dress with a bright and moving smile.

Xiao Chongyun held up his umbrella and walked down the rain-soaked steps.A kind doorman came over and offered to help him take a taxi. He smiled and declined, and walked south along the slippery street.

Cross two main roads and enter the University District.Qintai Road, where tourists gather on weekdays, looks extremely lonely in the rain.Xiao Chongyun turned into a side street lined with sycamore trees, pushed open the half-closed door of Fusheng Perfume Shop, and put a wet umbrella by the door.

Zhang Song was wiping all kinds of perfume bottles in the store with a flannel cloth, and frowned when he saw him soaked, and went to get a dry coat: "It's raining so much, don't go to the Lotus press conference."

"By the way, I went to have a look. If you are too far away, you can't see anything. The main new product is To the Ocean - "To the Ocean". It is said that the flavor of the ocean has been blended." Xiao Chongyun found that the coat Zhang Song handed over was much bigger than his own. The one I wore when I went out was slightly thicker: "This is what I wore in early winter."

Zhang Song had no expression on his face, and his words were like gold: "It's raining."

Xiao Chongyun puts on his clothes with his back facing the store door, looking particularly thin in the backlight.He was not the type to attract women through his muscles. Before he was injured, he could barely be called romantic and suave. Now, if it weren't for his clothes to support him, he would only be empty.The injury is healed, but the bones ache in the rainy weather.He was also extremely careful when he went out with an umbrella this time, but the rain was too heavy.

"This brat Zhang Song has a bad face, but he's actually pretty good." He thought while wearing it.

Fusheng Perfume Shop is on a small street next to the University District.Two years ago, Xiao Chongyun wanted to find a helper, so he went to the nearby engineering university to post an advertisement for part-time workers.In the afternoon, a tall boy came for an interview.The boy was taciturn, and only answered one or two words when asked.Xiao Chongyun thought it was too painful to get along like this, so let's compare.As a result, a student who applied for the job did not come for two consecutive days, so he had to call the boy with facial paralysis with a heavy heart and inform him to come to work here when there were no classes.This boy is Zhang Song.

When Zhang Song is not in class, he spends his time in Boss Xiao's shop, silently cleaning the glass, looking at the fragrances, looking through the process of making perfume, and watching the boss flirting with girls who buy perfume.

Xiao Chongyun also gradually got used to leaning on the counter to fool girls with a pair of gloomy eyes staring behind him when they bought perfume, and soon all kinds of tricks and abductions were at his ease.It's just that little girls often complain: "Uncle, the little brother in the store never talks, it's so scary~"

At this time Xiao Chongyun waved to Zhang Song: "Xiao Songsong, come here and give uncle a smile."

Zhang Song would stop wiping the glass bottle, crack his mouth expressionlessly, and bow his head to work again.

At this time, he was reading the account book while Xiao Chongyun was packing up his wet clothes: "Rose sesame oil, oakmoss essential oil, laurel essential oil...the goods have been delivered, I have recorded the payment for the goods and will pay next time. Also, I heard Lotus’ new product launch seems to require an invitation to enter.”

Xiao Chongyun smiled, the last sentence was an interrogative sentence, and only this kid with a paralyzed face could ask the tone of a declarative sentence.

"Oh, because I have their platinum membership card." He seemed to remember it: "I always forgot to throw it away."

27 years old, soon to be 30.He smiled wryly and touched the stubble of his unshaven beard. In the blink of an eye, he became a good-for-nothing uncle before he knew it.It doesn't matter if I guard this small shop that doesn't make much money by myself. Zhang Song is still a student and is about to graduate. It's not a solution for a good young man in his 20s to spend here.He has a good grasp of basic perfumery skills, but if he really wants to step into the career of a perfumer, the kid can only be called a three-legged cat.The purpose of going to the Lotus press conference this time is also to help him see if there is a suitable opportunity.

Xiao Chongyun lit a cigarette and leaned back on the armchair, flipping through the newly arrived color pages of the perfume magazine, looking for any competitions for newcomers to practice, and yawning as he flipped through the pages: "Xiao Songsong, do you want to join the perfumer competition?" the match of?"

The host was speaking: "TotheOcean launched this time - to the ocean, uses amber, ageratum, mint, ambergris and other marine spices. The sea breeze. The middle tone is relatively mellow..."

Zhou Tianhao stood on the stage, wearing a suit and leather shoes, with an elite temperament.He looked towards the door of the rainy and foggy hall, and turned his head to shoot Su Lan: "I seem to see Xiao Chongyun."

Lotus's second-ranked perfumer stared at the host, and spoke with the corner of his mouth: "Mr. Zhao is looking at us, Tianhao, please restrain yourself. Are you wrong? If you have time to think about this, why not think about your new winter work, until now So far, you don't seem to have any intention of starting to make it? Mr. Xiao Er, he is no longer in the perfume industry, who will send him an invitation?"

"Fortunately, he is not here." Zhou Tianhao looked into the distance casually: "If the accident five years ago did not happen, do you think you can keep the position of Lotus perfumer No.2? Maybe you can't even keep my position. ..."

"You know him well?"

"No... It's just that when I was studying in France, I was at the Ji Fangdan Joles Perfume School. He was a year ahead of me. He never spoke." Zhou Haotian thought of Xiao Chongyun a few years ago, surrounded by foreign students of the same generation in the laboratory, with a thin body and a shirt. The top two buttons are always undone, allowing easy access to the collarbone.When speaking, his eyebrows were slightly raised, showing a bit of heroism, and he was full of energy when talking and laughing.

Zhou Haotian, a well-known perfumer in the perfume industry, worked out the all-time favorite "Eternal" for Issey Miyake, and then moved to the domestic perfume brand Lotus, becoming the chief perfumer of Lotus.This time, he followed the newly appointed president to City C to attend the press conference, and ate and played with him. After a stroll, he arrived at Qintai Road.

Qintai Road is a tourist street in City C, lined with magnificently decorated shops specializing in souvenirs, jewelry and jade pit tourists.Mr. Zhou felt bored after wandering around, and saw that a side street shaded by sycamore trees was very quiet, so he talked to Su Lan and went for a stroll.

Just saw a small perfume shop.The name of the store "Fusheng" has a slight relief effect on the sandalwood signboard, which is not overly ostentatious, but also has a unique sense of humor. This taste unexpectedly attracts attention.It often takes a year or even several years for a top perfumer to configure a new perfume, and Zhou Tianhao is worrying about the theme of the next season's perfume.He decided to go in and have a look.

The light in the store is dim, and the wooden counters are filled with various glass bottles of perfume.Next to the door is a small round table covered with a floral tablecloth, a pot of unknown green leafy plants, and a few mahogany high-back chairs, specially for guests to try fragrances.The atmosphere is well laid out.

To his surprise, the store had a perfumer.

All the perfumes sold here are privately blended, packed in exquisite glass containers, and tied with bows or printed art labels according to the customer's taste.A perfumer may be able to release dozens of works in a lifetime, but the perfumer in this small shop has at least blended hundreds of perfumes... But it doesn't matter if you don't look at the quality, Zhou Haotian thought, why not bring a Bottle back to try.

The boss is not there, and the shopkeeper is an hourly student, who is owed money for his face.

Zhou Tianhao was playing with a glass bottle, deliberately making things difficult for the children: "I want a perfume that smells like winter, and it's unisex."

You must know that the more abstract the perfume taste, the more difficult it is to deploy.The jasmine and lavender perfumes that are often bought in the mall seem ordinary because they have examples.But relatively abstract flavors test the perfumer's ability to understand and grasp the sense of smell.It's not difficult to make floral herbs, but if you are asked to make the "L'air du' Temps" (L'air du'Temps), which was popular in Paris in [-], you need a professional perfumer from Nina Ricci-often just It takes years to select the one that expresses the mood from the approximately four thousand scents that humans can recognize.

The part-time students didn't seem to realize that they were being made things difficult, and the tone was flat: "There is no finished product."

There is no finished product, which means that this store is really making this kind of perfume.Zhou Tianhao suddenly found it very interesting: "Semi-finished products are also fine."

The semi-finished products are just samples, packed in small one-inch high glass bottles with light blue stoppers.The liquid inside is clear and transparent, simple and nothing special.A handwritten label in blue and black ink was affixed to the bottle: "December."

Zhou Tianhao didn't have time to test the fragrance, so he put the sample in his pocket casually, and called Su Lan: "Suddenly remembered that Mr. Zhao wants you to represent Lotus in this National Perfume Rookie Contest."

Su Lan was standing next to Lotus boss Zhao Wenbin, and lowered her voice: "Didn't I tell you to be successful? I'm very busy..."

"Because I'm a judge."

The author has something to say: Challenge the third person!