The Perfumer Who Wears the Book

Different from other supermarkets, the pastry in this supermarket is not the kind of cheap cake that uses inferior cream to paint a happy child on the sponge cake. On the contrary, whether it is the texture of the ingredients, the level of production or the type of pastry , are comparable to the high-priced bakery outside, but the price is cheaper than the cakes in the bakery.This is the reason why there is no bakery near the community where Su Xu lives, and the business has been taken away by the pastry counter in the supermarket.

Su Xu led Shen Jiarui to the shelf for biscuits. Biscuits of various shapes and flavors were neatly stacked in wicker baskets lined with white cloth, exuding a seductive atmosphere.

"Which flavor of biscuit do you want to eat?" Su Xu pulled out two food bags for biscuit, and then found a small clip for biscuit and handed it to Shen Jiarui, "You can pick up and smell each one, if you like it Put it in this bag, put the ones you don’t like in that bag.”

Shen Jiarui took the clip, looked up at Su Xu and asked, "Father, what kind of food do you like?"

Su Xu paused, and the child began to choose fragrances according to his preferences instead of his own. He couldn't help but shook his head, patted his back and said, "What you like is what I like, don't you I like it, and I certainly don’t like it.”

Shen Jiarui had no choice but to focus on the baskets of biscuits, carefully looked at the biggest nameplate hanging in front of the basket, and flipped through a few pieces with a clip, and threw them back as soon as they were picked up.He doesn't have much interest in sweets, and because his family's financial situation was too bad in the past, he hasn't eaten snacks since he was a child, and he is even less interested in these small things baked with flour, cream and syrup.

Shen Jiarui didn't even have the desire to pick up most of the biscuits, and quickly skipped most of the biscuit baskets, and finally stopped in front of a basket of biscuits named "Caramel Coffee Cookies".The round biscuits seem to be twisted together with a small piece of thick black rope around a white almond, exuding the smell of scorching caramel, mellow coffee aroma, and the penetrating taste of roasted almonds Bitter taste.

Shen Jiarui flipped over the biscuits gently with a tong, finally picked up one piece, and put it in front of his eyes to observe carefully. After a long time, the waiters at the counter were attracted by his strange movements and stared at him vigilantly.

Su Xu knew what Shen Jiarui was thinking of, and didn't make a sound to stop it.After a few more minutes, Shen Jiarui put the biscuit into the food bag, thought for a while, put a few more into it, and finally said softly: "I remember when I was seven years old, I got a pass in the final exam for the first time. The first in the whole grade, my mother was very happy and brought me a small bag of these biscuits for dinner. She said it was her favorite biscuit because..."

Because on her first date with the man, the man offered her a caramel macchiato.

Su Xu nodded silently, took the clip and put several biscuits into the bag, and asked, "Anyone else you like?"

Shen Jiarui casually glanced at the remaining baskets, and finally shook his head: "No more."

A piece of biscuit eaten five years ago can awaken so many memories, a vague idea about the theme of this perfume began to emerge in Su Xu's brain - nostalgia and memory.He wants to use the scent of these sweet candies to outline the outline of the deceased He Yuanjing.

The young woman who died young has been struggling to survive in a poor life ever since she met Shen Jiarui's father, Shen Chengxuan. She failed to provide Shen Jiarui with too many happy and beautiful memories, but she will always be in Shen Jiarui's heart. The softest and most precious existence is his only mother, and no one can replace it.

The Sri Lankan has passed away, and no matter how much suffering is in the past, it is like an old photo, which starts to turn yellow and become old, and in the end there is only a blurry shadow left, but those beautiful things will be recalled over and over again, over and over again. Redrawing again and again, it becomes clearer and fuller, just like wine fermented in oak barrels, the longer the time, the more mellow the taste, and when I think about it again, there is only a sweetness that makes people smile.

This is what Su Xu wants to achieve, he wants to use the taste of these sweet candies to reproduce the taste of He Yuanjing for Shen Jiarui.This smell does not refer to the smell on He Yuanjing's body, but the memory about the smell that He Yuanjing left for Shen Jiarui. He hopes that every time Shen Jiarui sniffs, what he recalls is the beauty, brightness and warmth of his mother, not the cold sadness.

They browsed the loose candy counter again, picking out toffees and bonbons wrapped in colorful cellophane.

"The restaurant where she used to work sometimes has people coming to hold some simple weddings, or ask them to prepare the meals and send them over." Shen Jiarui twisted a few liqueur chocolates with his fingers and threw them into the bag, writing lightly, "The owner of the wedding banquet This chocolate is given away to everyone, whether it’s guests or staff or just passing by. She brings it home and gives it to me every time.”

Shen Jiarui's face had a calmness that didn't match his age, and the tone that seemed to be talking about other people's affairs made Su Xu not know what to say, and in this situation, no matter what he said, he seemed pale and powerless.In the end, he just stroked his hair, picked up a liqueur chocolate and turned it over to read the description on its package, and finally pretended to be surprised: "There are still kinds of wine in the liqueur chocolate? This kind of wine is filled with Come on, rum, let's see how many kinds there are."

In the end, they picked out six flavors of chocolate, including rum, Alsace apricot, gin, champagne, brandy and red wine.Su Xu planned to ask Shen Jiarui to try each of them and pick the one he likes the most. He wanted to add the smell of wine to the perfume.

Recalling his dead mother twice a day, Shen Jiarui looked a little depressed, and he didn't recover until he got home.Seeing this, Su Xu called the head teacher and made another call, taking the afternoon off as well, and asked Su Xu to stay at home and rest.

In the afternoon, the father and son huddled together on the sofa, watching TV series absent-mindedly, while eating the biscuits and candies they bought in the morning.Under Su Xu's intentional guidance, Shen Jiarui slowly began to recall He Yuanjing.He seldom talked about He Yuanjing with Su Xu before. He relied on Su Xu, but this kind of dependence was between intimacy and alienation. He enjoyed Su Xu's love, but wrapped himself up very well. It seemed that this would be enough. Leave at any time without getting caught by Su Xu.Only now did he truly open himself up, and while trying to intervene in Su Xu's life, he was finally willing to let Su Xu enter his heart, even if only a little bit.

Memories are exhausting. After dinner, Shen Jiarui used the computer for a while, and soon went to bed.But Su Xu sat in the living room, took out his notebook, and began to write down the formula that he had initially conceived in his mind.

It's a coffee-and-brandy fragrance, with notes of caramel and cocoa fruit, as well as hints of strawberry, mango and almonds.Su Xu imagined this smell in his brain, adjusted the concentration and thickness of various scents, and kept adding some new scents, but quickly deleted them, until finally, he decided to add a scent The fragrance of Sophora japonica.Sophora japonica is planted everywhere in this city, and every spring, the air is full of this rich and moist fragrance.This smell that is too familiar to Shen Jiarui can increase his sense of identity with this perfume.

The scent has been determined, and the rest of the work should be to start making it.But when Su Xu thought of the existing spices in the space, he couldn't help but feel a little headache.

Perfume has developed to the present, and pure natural fragrances can no longer meet the needs of its increasingly rich and complex fragrance.Especially for various novel or abstract tastes, there is no way to use this taste to express items to prepare.It is impossible for Su Xu to really add brandy or church to the perfume, and these strawberry mango and coffee flavors are actually formulated through various chemical compounds whose names seem to be irrelevant.Strawberry, for example, is actually composed of apple esters and ethyl maltol, while the caramel scent is created with tonka bean extract, vanillin and methylcyclopentenolone.

Some of these chemical ingredients can be extracted from natural flavors, while others are made by the interaction of chemicals that have nothing to do with plants, just like apple ester, the source of this molecule with fresh apple fragrance and apple Regardless, it is actually synthesized by azeotropic dehydration of ethyl acetoacetate and ethylene glycol with an acidic catalyst.But now, even though the machines for extracting spices in the space have been upgraded with the completion of entry indicators and first-level tasks, they can separate dozens and hundreds of molecular components in most essential oils one by one, but these components cannot meet the requirements of perfume. For the preparation, the missing part needs to be purchased by Su Xu himself.

Some perfume lovers that Su Xu met on the Internet got some chemical companies that can mail synthetic fragrances, and finally got all the raw materials together within a week, and then started the modulation work.

For a period of time, Su Xu has been forcing himself to stay outside the space, restraining his desire to extract the air from the space.Fortunately, after these days of intensive training, Su Xu finally got used to it, and no longer couldn't eat or sleep because of the annoying ingredients in the air, so he started to make the perfume.

This process was not difficult for Su Xu who had already had a clear understanding of the perfume she wanted to mix.The production of a perfume sometimes takes several years from the conception to the completion of the work, but when the thinking is clear, it can be completed in a week.As for Shen Jiarui's perfume, Su Xu only took ten days to complete it.