Chapter XVIII. Glass's Trip
I don't know for what reason, many people think that a talented perfumer has a particularly sensitive sense of smell, and perhaps there are many people, like Cheng Fengchun's wife, because of "Perfume: A Murderer's Story" began to understand the profession of perfumer, but Mrs. Cheng read the novel, and most people watched the movie adapted from the novel. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The male protagonist in the movie can smell the body fragrance of girls a few blocks away, and his nose is directly more sensitive than a police dog, but the scene setting in the movie is far from reality, and it can be said that it already belongs to the category of science fiction.
In real life, most people's olfactory ability is actually about the same, and everyone with a normal sense of smell will have their own sensitive taste series, some people are sensitive to wine, some people are about food, and some people may be more sensitive to flowers or something. Sensitivity to certain odors is normal and does not have olfactory specificities.
And if Zuo Zai had such a special function, he probably wouldn't need to go to Cheng Fengchun's showroom to be discovered for his talent for perfumery.
The truth is that perfumers can have the same sense of smell as ordinary people, or slightly better than ordinary people. At the end of the day, when a perfumer works, the spices are kept at hand, picked up and smelled, and there is really no need to have a nose that can smell scents from several kilometers away.
Learning to be a perfumer was originally a long and boring process.
In this process, the skill that takes the longest time to learn and master is the smell of spices. Perfumers need to remember the taste of each spice, distinguish the difference between spices, and after smelling the smell, be able to find out what spice it is from memory. The basic skill of fragrance sniffing requires practice to learn two things, first of all, you have to remember the taste of spices, and then you have to say the corresponding name of the spice.
Zuo Zai's talent is actually in spice memory. Once she smells it, she can remember the fragrance in her head, and she won't mix it up just because she smells too much.
When Zuo was younger, he never felt that there was anything special about his nose.
Zuo Zai likes to sleep in his parents' bed, because there is the smell of his parents on the bed, which makes people sleep very safely, but don't children have similar hobbies? Who doesn't run their children into their parents' beds? Can't others smell it? Anyway, Zuo Zai only sleeps in his parents' beds, and she is disgusted by other people's families to let her sleep.
Zuo Zai always remembers the taste of the early morning after the rain in the courtyard of his hometown. Rain and dew mingled, the breeze gusted, the sun shone through the gaps in the osmanthus trees, and the vines next to them were covered with ripe green grapes. Zuo Zai has loved the smell of the first sunny day after the rain since he was a child, and when he woke up, he opened the window and breathed deeply.
But who doesn't find the good morning air refreshing? Every time, Zuo smelled the smell of the early morning by the window on the second floor for a while, and the smell of my mother cooking baked wheat cakes downstairs wafted up from the window on the first floor. Smelling the smell, Zuo Zai ran downstairs to the kitchen, wheat cakes are Zuo Zai's favorite breakfast, and smelled, the wheat cakes baked a little more burnt than usual on this day, it will definitely be crispy and cute, and the saliva is about to flow down.
At this point, Zuo Zai ran down the stairs a little faster than usual. But what kid wouldn't rush to their own treat? Can this be considered talent?
Seriously, sometimes, a person's talent is there, and no one tells you that you may not even know that it is a talent.
In "Perfume: A Murderer's Story", the first perfumer of the male protagonist said to him: "If you haven't been to Grasse, you can't say that you have learned perfumery." In fact, before 2002, Grasse did not have any perfume academy, and when I went to Grasse to learn perfumery, I had to learn from the master. Generally, it takes six years to learn, but in the first few years, I learned the basic skill of smelling spices.
The strange thing is that this basic skill, which requires several years of training for others, can be mastered in a few hours, and the taste of every spice is basically "unforgettable". If Zuo Zai said it herself, she wouldn't think that it had anything to do with the talent of the perfumer, it was all because of her excellent memory, and she could remember it if she smelled it.
In February 2002, during the Chinese New Year, the Grasse-Institute-of-Perfumery was founded. It is said that it is a college, but in fact, it does not issue any too useful diplomas, and the matter of perfume blending is, in the final analysis, vocational education.
Cheng Fengchun has been to this place twice in Grasse, the first time was when Mrs. Cheng came on a pilgrimage after reading the novel "Perfume". The subtitle of the novel, the story of a murderer, you can see that this book is actually a bit suspenseful and terrifying, and the box office is also very good when it was made into a suspense movie in 06. But Cheng Fengchun and his wife found that the real Glass and the novel felt different, and Glass in May was simply a sea of roses.
For decades, Grasse has hosted the Rose Festival every May, and depending on the weather and the time of day, the timing of this festival is not fixed, so it was a stroke of luck. Madame Cheng was fascinated by Grasse's roses and other spices, and began her own perfumer studies in Grasse.
The second time, Cheng Fengchun followed his wife back to Grasse to find the raw material for the perfume - "Queen Grasse" (Centifolia May Rose), the essential oil extracted from this rose, which is one of the important ingredients of the queen's fragrance.
In line with the purpose of cultivating Zuo Zai as his wife's successor, the Grasse Perfume Academy had just been established, and Cheng Fengchun took Zuo Zai and his family to Grasse.
Grasse is a French tourist destination and a famous perfume capital. The three famous perfume factories in Grasse have long made perfume a tourism industry, and there are various special tourism projects such as "perfume masters" for pilgrims to choose from. Although the most famous is the rose, Grasse is not only famous for roses, but also the Jasmine Festival in August.
However, Cheng Fengchun was too anxious, and the February he chose was really cold and there was nothing to look at.
Cheng Fengchun originally thought that he would take Zuo to Grasse again, and Zuo Zai would like to spice up as much as his wife. But there were no flowers at all at this time, and as soon as he arrived in Grasse, Cheng Fengchun gave Zuo Zai several high-concentration essences that senior perfumers could not be smoked, so that Zuo Zai only left a "fragrant disgusting" impression on Glass.
This also led directly to the fact that Zuo Zai was very resistant to using various flowers for perfume after that. Cheng Fengchun could only sigh for his impatience, and the result of bringing Grass back to Grass was completely contrary to his original intention.
On this trip, I almost began to dislike the profession of perfumer. Fortunately, Zuo Jaya is only 12 years old, and there are still many possibilities in the future.
Zuo Zai's talent for olfactory memory allowed her to have the basic skills of a senior perfumer without any effort, but the basic skills alone can only be described in three words.
Once the fragrance sniff is complete, the perfumer begins to need a bit of artistic flair and imagination to figure out the accord. The word Accord is generally used by people who learn English, either by remembering the meaning of conformity, or by remembering that it seems to have something to do with according-to.
However, Zuo Zai knows this word entirely because he wants to understand Chopin, not the "goodbye Chopin" on the Internet, but the real music master Chopin. Accord means chord in piano, and in perfumery it is note.
Chords should be listened to which notes are put together, and notes are meant to smell which spices are put together. Although the name is the same, the difficulty is completely different, to put it bluntly, how many pianos are healthy? The number of keys is not on the same order of magnitude as the variety of spices.
Zuo Zai has a lot of imagination, mainly in terms of funny, but when it comes to artistic talent, Zuo Zai really doesn't have it.
If Zuo Zai Dan had a little talent for perfumery, the cat poop candle would not be her first perfumery "work". This probably has something to do with being too funny and imaginative.
In Grasse, assistant perfumers need to create perfumes that can be recognized in order to take off the hat of "assistant" and become a real perfumer. For perfumers, creating their own fragrance is an extremely important step up to the next level, and assistant perfumers can forget about it. But Zuo Zai is not interested in this matter. She likes to do things that restore the taste of life - such as the smell of cat feces.
Cheng Fengchun came to France with his family this time, and he drove out in two RVs. These two RVs are definitely shocked by the left. Zuo Zai grew up in China until he was 12 years old, and he had never seen such a thing as an RV, and even if he did, it couldn't be what she was like when she went to France this time. The two RVs that the Cheng family bought in Europe, one was customized according to the requirements of Cheng Fengchun's eldest son, and the other was customized by Cheng Yan.
From the outside, there is no difference between the two cars, both are the kind of two-story motorhome.
Cheng Dagongzi's luxury RV is mainly considered for functionality, and there are three rooms on the second floor, a King-size room (bed 2.03m x 1.93m), a Qeen-size room (bed 2.03 x 1.52m) and a Twin-size room (two beds of 1.88m x 0.99m), and two bathrooms. (If you don't think the size of these beds is exaggerated, you have to understand that this bed is in a room in a car.) )
On the ground floor there is a small bedroom, which should be a maid's room if designed, a large living room, a kitchenette and a small dining room. The kitchen can't be expanded, but if one side panel of the car is opened, it can be turned into a "roof" and then expand into a standard dining room that can accommodate 10 people, and if you take out the barbecue grill, the kitchen can be expanded.
Cheng Yan's RV has only one room and one bathroom. But Zuo Zai felt that Cheng Yan's RV could only be described as terrible. Except that the configuration of the room and bathroom is not as good as his brother, the others are all in the rhythm of killing every minute.
The part of the small bedroom of the eldest son of the family on the first floor is a garage of Cheng Yan's RV. The RV must be driven by the driver, and if the second young master of the Cheng family wants to walk around where he wants to go when he arrives at the destination, he will drive the Aston Martin sports car in the garage. The rest of the entire area on the first floor, except for a small bathroom, is a large living room with a long bar. The feeling of having a party on the first floor of a Cheng Yan RV is definitely much better than in a regular apartment - whose apartment can have a view along the way for guests to enjoy?
In addition to the rooms on the second floor, there is a large audio-visual room, in which there are three or four kinds of game consoles alone. In addition, the most frustrating part of the second floor of Cheng Yan's RV is that there is a jacuzzi where you can open the ceiling and take a bath while watching the starry sky. At that time in 2002, the jacuzzi was not installed at home, and people had already installed it in the car, can you not feel terrible?
If it weren't for Cheng Fengchun letting her smell the excessively concentrated spices in Grasse, Zuo Zai's trip to Glass would have been perfect. In addition to sleeping time, she and Xiao Nai both relied on Cheng Yan's car, and there were various game consoles in the video room, and the one they played was called a dim and dark. This kind of tourism is absolutely unprecedented. Even the first class of Emirates does not have such a good configuration, not to mention that she has not even sat in first class.