Yes, typical of me!
Creating a blog, taking one big step to make my dreams come true, softly mopping up tears from the corner of my eyes when thinking of how far I came already in life despite my young age ( just turned 28, and YES, IT IS YOUNG! ), imagining people en mass from everywhere in the world getting obsessed with reading my blog, etc, etc... and forgetting the password to update the blog....
Anyways, getting more organised is one of my main resolution for 2010. I even insisted on being more organised in the way of taking resolutions! I prioritized them, like e.g. "Mastering French language" has higher rank than "No more stealing of slippers from close family members and my own pair finally to be found!" At the end of the row of resolutions, there is "Make the forward split" - haven't ever managed to do it, even at the age of 7...- which is just after "Socialize with people who have nothing to do with the perfume industry".
Everybody has to do with perfumes who is living in Grasse. My best friends are perfumers. My best friends outside school are either perfumers or working for perfume companies. My best friends' best friends are professional perfume raw material buyers. My neighbour is the son of a well known perfumer. His girlfriend is a perfumer. Believe me, I could go on and on forever!!!
The wildest experience I had outside this milieu was an adventure of getting to talk to a young man who works in the flavouring industry, his job is to test different flavours for chocolats.
( Best.job.ever! I wanted to marry him. He didn't want to. )
When you live in Grasse, where the number of perfumers per square meter is the highest on the earth, your discussion topics are pretty limited:
Usually you talk non-stop in perfume language.
This is exactly what I did with a friend from school who was the first that I have met since my arrival back to Grasse after winter holidays.
We again - for the 100th time - asked each other the question "Who is your favorite perfumer?" The question comes back once per week in average in such "perfumed" company, mostly only the ranking is changing among the 10 most known perfumers. But to justify the ranking, we have always new ideas!
My favorites - as per today:
- I admire JC Ellena for the purity he gives to his accord. Strangely enough, I feel that the dynamics of his creations are always the same, although I know that he is a real trend setter.
- I understand every day better and better the creations of Olivier Cresp, appreciating more and more the creativity of his flower- and hearthless ( in the technical meaning ) creation of Angel.
- I love Kurkdjian because he dares. He takes strong decisions. He choses a theme and than pushes it to the edge. Like he did with Gaultier2 - who else would make a perfume smell like a cookie overwhelmed with butter? I don't like wearing Gaultier2 , but I think that nowadays, when good results in extensive olfactive testing among potential customers around the world is a main criteria for launching new perfumes, a product which is created NOT to be liked by everybody deserves appreciation!
-I thank Roudnitska for the voyage he invites me to every time I sniff from his juices. Though I don't especially like his perfumes, I sense the presence of a genious behind all his creations. I lately smelled Diorella again, and I am not exaggerating, this is the naughtiest sexy perfume of all time!!! The pure, raw animalic notes taking over the perfume from the first second made me feel the same way as if my lover was whispering to my ears, blowing hot air on my neck. Not many perfumes can do that...
After discussing our all time favorite question and the most important launches too, I went back home. And my friend went back to the restaurant where we met to call me because she didn't find her mobile phone and asked if i took it by any chance. She put a lot of effort on not making me look like a thief in that case... Later she found it on the street, on her way home. It was on the side, so it only caught her attention because it was ringing - her husband called.
And this takes us back to my resolution: If this happened in 2009, there would have been 99 % chance that I am the one who is loosing her phone on the street, not anybody else.
I wish a Happy Well-Organised New Year to myself!
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