The Perfumer Who Wears the Book

"What's wrong?" Ed stretched his neck to look at the expression on Su Xu's face, while the latter just took a deep breath, and finally sighed softly: "This is simply amazing..."

This is an indescribable feeling, as if a world that has never been explored by anyone is suddenly shown in front of him, and when Su Xu really faces this world, what is left in his heart is only a deep feeling. shocked.

He didn't know what effect the contents of the bottle had on his body. He only knew that breathing was no longer what it used to be to him.Those scents that used to be mixed and mixed in some dissolved in the air required him to concentrate and meditate to find them, but now they are just like the commodities on the shelves that are within reach at a glance.Those smells were tangled threads, and as he breathed again and again, Su Xu found that these threads were slowly unraveled, reorganized into one after another, and flowed neatly in the air.

He can smell every bottle of essential oil in this room, and just by smelling, he can imagine their weight and the damage and blemish caused in the process of extraction and preservation; The traces of Peruvian balsam, tolu balsam, benzoin resin, raspberry extract, iris extract, and sweet ylang bean added to it smell clearly and distinctly; he can smell the bottle of "Summer Night", those intertwined Fruity, floral and woody together, but for him, just a breath, he can smell each ingredient and its due proportion; The moist and fertile atmosphere emanating from the land, the growing and blooming flowers gradually become mature from jerky, drops of water hang on the needle-shaped branches and leaves of cedar, and the green apples glow a little bit under the sunlight. Bright red.

Su Xu opened his eyes, looked at Ed who was sitting in front of him, hesitated, and said, "Ed...do you eat too many peaches and have diarrhea?"

Ed opened his eyes wide, jumped up as if stung by a bee, and looked at him vigilantly: "I didn't eat the fruit you planted! Stupid human beings, do you think I still need to ingest other living things? Is it possible for a low-level creature to obtain the energy needed to sustain life? I just need to bask in the sun! The artificial sun in this space is a huge energy supply, I just need to stand outside and bask in the sun..."

"If advanced creatures like you don't need to eat dead plants, then your beloved Jonathan, where does the peach flavor in his mouth come from?" Su Xu folded her arms and looked at him leisurely. "Also, when I came in just now, what were you chewing in your mouth? Isn't it the reproductive organs of a plant called jasmine?"

Ed opened his mouth wide, licked his nose after a long while, turned his head guiltily, and swung his tail behind him: "I didn't delay your business, you planted so much...wait!" He suddenly Turning back to stare at Su Xu, "How did you know? I remember that I buried the fruit cores far away, you can't possibly know!"

Su Xu touched his nose, with a slightly disgusted expression on his face: "As a dog known for its keen sense of smell, you should know...even if you wash the long hair on your buttocks n times and sprinkle perfume on it, There will still be a lingering taste…”

Ed seemed to have been shocked by an electric shock, his limbs were stiff, he staggered back two steps, let out a horrified scream, then turned around and rushed out of the room like the wind, disappearing into the flower garden.

Su Xu laughed loudly, until tears came out, and then remembered the four glass boxes that could not be opened on the shelf, then rubbed her stomach and walked over, carefully observed up and down, and seriously sniffed , but it seems that these boxes have the function of isolating the smell. He didn't smell any smell at all, so he could only honestly open the buckle on the wooden box to see what the second most important gift package after completing the entry quota was.

As soon as Su Xu opened the lid of the box, a pungent pungent smell hit his face fiercely, like a boxer who had planned for a long time hiding in the dark, looking for an opportunity to slap someone hard on the face. One hit.Su Xu was choked by the smell and burst into tears. He took two steps back before his brain could analyze what the smell was.

This is civet incense, which is the secretion extracted from the capsule of the tail of civet cats. It is also known as the world's four major animal fragrances together with castoreum, musk and dragon birth incense.Civet scent is the most delicate and elegant scent of all beasts or wild birds. It is the favorite spice used by Queen Cleopatra of ancient Egypt. It is rumored that she rubbed the civet scent on her armpits and lower body, which greatly increased her beauty. It was only because of her own sexy charm that she successfully charmed the Roman hero Caesar, fell in love with him and married him.Su Xu then opened the remaining three boxes and found the remaining three of the four major animal spices in them.

Su Xu looked at the two full boxes of dragon birthday incense and musk, and took a long time to resist the urge to take them out and sell them.Both musk and dragon birth incense are extremely rare, priceless, and only used in a small amount in a few extremely expensive perfumes. Now, even though people have artificially synthesized various substitutes, they still cannot completely simulate the fragrance of animal fragrances. Emotionally vivid fragrance.Two boxes of dragon birth incense and musk of such high quality, if they are sold...

Su Xu imagined the wonderful scene of lying on the banknotes and sleeping, and finally decided to give up this method of getting rich quickly.Everyone is innocent, but pregnant is guilty. No one has the energy to investigate how he took out a few bottles of imitation perfume out of thin air, but if it is two boxes of dragon birth incense and musk that are worth more than gold, then it is hard to say.

However, compared with dragon birth incense and musk, castoreum and civet incense are not so unaffordable because they can be extracted from living bodies. Civet cats and beavers have artificial breeding farms in many countries around the world.If only these two boxes were used to make perfume, they would be used up soon, and judging from Su Xu's usual generous understanding of space, there must be something else in this box.

Su Xu thought for a while, found a small spoon on the workbench, and gently scooped a spoonful of civet fragrance like solidified butter.Sure enough, after a few seconds, the gap gradually disappeared, and the civet incense became a full box again.Su Xu also took a spoonful of the other three boxes of spices, and each box of spices was refilled after a few seconds.

Except for Longdan incense, animal spices have an unacceptable raw smell when they are not processed, but after a certain treatment, they have an "emotional" fragrance that cannot be imitated so far.

Su Xu fetched a large bottle of alcohol, put musk kernels in it, and sealed the mouth of the bottle.Opened a few months later, the bottle of liquid will exude a light, warm and lively fragrance.

Putting it on the shelf, Su Xu sat down on the chair next to the workbench, found out the paper and pen, and wrote down the formula of the perfume he was going to imitate.

With the development of science and technology, people have discovered the secret of aroma. By analyzing the ingredients of natural spices, they use chemical methods to produce the same aroma.The spices needed to make perfume are no longer limited to natural plant and animal secretions. People can even extract synthetic spices from organic chemicals, such as coal and petroleum, for the modulation of perfume.For example, ethyl acetate extracted from petroleum is a clear substance with a fruity aroma of aged wine. As a spice raw material, it is widely used in pineapple, banana, strawberry and other fruit flavors and whiskey, cream and other spices. of the main raw materials.

It is the synthetic fragrance raw materials extracted by these chemical methods that make the taste of the perfume more and more colorful and complex, which also makes the imitation of the perfume more difficult. No perfumer can smell it clearly. Which one is the thousands of ingredients in a bottle of perfume, and how much is used.Of course, except for Su Xu now.

But the problem Su Xu faced was not that he couldn't distinguish the ingredients in the perfume, but that he had limitations in raw materials.Only plants can be grown in the space, and the animal fragrances provided are of no help to this, so the types of spices that he can get in the space for perfume making now seem to be dwarfed.

Fortunately, he does not have to imitate [-]% exactly the same, [-]% to [-]% similarity is enough to make customers unable to distinguish any difference.Some raw materials can be omitted directly, while others can be imitated by using natural flavors.After passing the entry indicators, planting is no longer a problem, and determining what spices to use is the biggest problem.But for Su Xu, the most difficult question now, after he got an extremely sensitive nose, the difficulty is greatly reduced.Two hours later, he determined the formulas of the three perfumes, got up and went out to prepare the raw materials.

Su Xu stayed in the space for nearly 35 hours, and when he left the space, the time in the real world was just after six o'clock in the afternoon.Sitting up from the bed, Su Xu immediately felt sore all over his body, as if he had slept in one position for too long, but the fact is not far from it, plus he only slept for three hours during the 35 hours in the space and had three meals a day But after eating some fruit, I feel tired and hungry now.

Facing the strange eyes of the innkeeper and leaving the room, Su Xu arrived home before dark. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Shen Jiarui rushing out of his bedroom, hugging his waist, and his voice was full of enthusiasm. Complaining: "Dad, where have you been?"

"Didn't Dad tell you yesterday? I went to see an old friend from the past." Su Xu kissed his forehead, said vaguely, then exaggeratedly sniffed the air, and said, "Okay Sweet, did your mother come back to make dinner? No, it’s not like your mother’s, Jia Rui, did you make it?”

Shen Jiarui's face immediately lit up, nodded heavily, and said, "Yes, Dad, how did you know?"

"It smells." Su Xu pinched his nose, "It smells very different from your mother's cooking."

"Does it smell bad?" Shen Jiarui's expression collapsed.

"It smells delicious, much better than your mother's." Su Xu smiled, "Don't tell your mother this, or she will be upset. Alright, let's eat now, You are hungry too."

Shen Jiarui watched Su Xu walk into the bathroom to wash his hands, the expression on his face instantly darkened, and then became cheerful and bright again just a second before Su Xu walked out of the bathroom, and followed him into the kitchen.