Chapter 1044: Twelve Flower Gods
Perfume Chen Xu made a total of ten bottles, each bottle is about half a catty, leaving two bottles for Fan Caiwei, the remaining eight bottles of flavor are not the same, the fragrance difference is still relatively obvious, three of them are even pure essential oil separation of water, the fragrance is very light, in Chen Xu's opinion, basically can not be regarded as a perfume, but even so, this kind of water with a fragrance still quickly conquered everyone, Shui Qingrou and others took different perfumes and a group of maids began to discuss in the room.
Chen Xu was too lazy to mix in the distribution of perfumes, and his mind was extremely quiet at the moment, and a group of beautiful wives and concubines in front of him who were usually warblers, warblers, Yanhuan, fat and thin, did not have too many thoughts in their eyes, so they simply left the hall and went to the study, took out paper, pens and drawing tools, and began to design perfume bottles.
Of course, luxury goods must have extravagant packaging, just like the porcelain vase that was specially designed to enhance the image of wine, it must be something that makes people feel extremely valuable at first glance, so that people who spend a lot of money in the end feel that it is worth the money.
At the beginning, Qinghe store was an instant hit in Wancheng by Qinghe wine, and made more than one million dollars in less than an hour, which not only frightened Chen Xu at that time, but even Fan Yan, who had a mountain of money at home, was surprised, which made Fan Yan more determined to cooperate with him to start making wine and making a fortune, and Chen Xu also got a great help from the business community, and received strong support from the business community in the later reforms, which also made Dongfang Dao finally rely on Chen Xu's charm to complete it on time in a year, and finally was able to overturn Li Si, got the opportunity to break the issue and completed the implementation of the new business law, which is why Daqin is developing with each passing day.
Without the good development of commerce, the country cannot be rich, even the mountains of grain are useless, and people cannot be satisfied with the simplest desire to be fed.
After we have enough to eat and clothe, we must advance the building of material civilization and spiritual civilization at the same time.
At present, Daqin is developing rapidly with each passing day, and the situation is completely different from Daqin when Chen Xu opened the first Qinghe store in Wancheng, and the consumption level and consumption capacity have expanded at least ten times.
If the prince of essential oils can't afford it, then ordinary perfume must be fine, and as for the wealthy level of the family, cologne and toilet water can still be consumed.
Therefore, in order to reflect the different perfume grades, Chen Xu also decided to use different bottles and packaging.
The best perfumes naturally have to use the best crystal bottles, and they have to have decorative patterns, and the outside needs to be customized with precious incense wood in gorgeous packaging boxes, and the inside must also be put in the product use and preservation instructions, and each box needs to be marked with a production date and expiration date......
Chen Xu was alone in the study, forgetting to sleep and eat for this upcoming money-making business, and there were more than ten different glass bottles and packaging box styles stacked on the table.
Shui in a black dress gently came in from the outside with a pot of hot tea, and saw Chen Xu who was working at the desk, and slowly walked behind Chen Xu, watching him scratch his ears and cheeks and draw a strange thing.
"Hey, it's coming!" Although Chen Xu didn't hear the footsteps, a slight fresh and elegant chrysanthemum fragrance hit, so he turned around with a smile, and sure enough, he saw that the water was soft.
"Husband, please have tea!" Shui gently poured a cup of hot tea for Chen Xu, then picked up the half-drawn press spray cover that Chen Xu had drawn and asked in surprise: "What is this painting, husband?" ”
"This is the cap of the perfume bottle I designed?" Chen Xu took a sip of hot tea, gently hugged the water on his lap, and said with a smile.
"Why is the cap so complicated, there is a thin tube underneath......" Shui gently turned over and over at the complex cap.
"This is a bottle cap specially designed for perfume, the perfume is valuable and easy to dissipate, if you have to open the cap every time you use it, it is not safe to be knocked down and spilled, and the aroma will dissipate quickly over time, I designed this press type spray cap, you don't need to open the cap when you use it, just press it lightly and it will spray a mist of perfume, which is not only easy to use, but also will not cause the fragrance to pass, you can keep it for a long time......"
Chen Xu pointed to the drawings that drew more than half of the bottle cap and introduced the function of the bottle cap, only listening to the soft water and starlight ripples, and looked at more than ten different perfume bottles and packaging boxes drawn by Chen Xu with great interest and said: "Husband really has countless whimsical ideas, the day before yesterday I just mentioned that you not only quickly refined the essence of the flowers to make a perfume, but also designed this breathtaking bottle cap, and the words on these perfume bottles and packaging boxes are also very interesting. How do they all carry the name of a god of flowers......"
"Hehe, the lady is so smart, naturally she should think of my intentions, this perfume is difficult to refine and configure, and it will definitely be very expensive to sell at that time, so this packaging design must reflect the value that matches it, but this bottle cap is easy to think, but I am afraid it will take a lot of effort to make it successfully!" Chen Xu shook his head with some distress.
"Why should you worry about Fujun, at present, there are countless craftsmen and craftsmen in the Academy of Sciences and Experimental Factory, as well as many students and professors in the College of Engineering, all of whom are the best craftsmen in Daqin, you just need to take the drawings to them to study, and they will definitely be able to be made soon, until these packaging boxes designed by Fujun look too simple, and Gentle and Shiyan Wan'er can make some improvements for Fujun!" Water gently and gently persuades.
"Haha, the lady really knows me best, I really can't take the design of this box, you see, I have designed a total of twelve different perfumes, and I plan to divide it into twelve different fragrance series in the future, so I am ready to name each of them after a flower god, but there are so many flowers in the world, spring, summer, autumn and winter are different, it is really difficult to choose which twelve kinds of flowers to choose!"
"The husband's idea is really wonderful, these different perfumes named after the god of flowers, must be more recognized by the public, gently have not heard of the twelve flower gods, but know the flower festival, Tao Zhu Gongshuyun: February 12 is the birthday of a hundred flowers, no rain and a hundred flowers are ripe. Therefore, in the past, the princes of the Son of Heaven had to worship the god of flowers on this day to show their reverence for the god of flowers, and on this day, the common people had to go to the mountains to pick fresh flowers and wild vegetables to make cauliflower soup, in order to show that life was happy and sweet, so the flower festival is also known as the vegetable festival in the folk! ”
Chen Xu hugged the water softly with emotion, buried his head in her full chest and muttered: "The lady is very knowledgeable, with you, I feel that I am illiterate!" ”
"Hehe, how can the husband bury himself so much, with the husband, gently and only feel shallow, gently and especially worship the husband's so many whimsical ideas, reading is just a strong memory, they are all picking up other people's teeth and wisdom, and every invention and innovation of the husband is something that is not in this world, and it will be inherited in the future and admired by future generations!"
"Lady, you are so virtuous, I found that I am much more comfortable when I am praised by you!" Chen Xu's hand unconsciously poked into the soft skirt of the water.
"Husband, please take care of your body, you just came back from Sister Caiwei today......" Shui gently blushed and gently pressed a pair of claws on Chen Xumao's hands and feet.
Well, Chen Xu felt that it was really not good to go on like this, and he was afraid that he would go bald too soon if he overworked, so he had to give up, put out more than ten design drawings and began to discuss with Shui Qingru slowly.
Soon in the evening, after dinner, Chen Xu took out the drawings again, invited Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan and Xing'er to participate in the discussion, and finally after synthesizing the different opinions of several people, the names of the twelve main flower gods were determined.
Why are the twelve main flower gods?
That's because there are indeed too many types of flowers, just the Shang and Zhou Dynasty handed down from various books to record the name and surname of the season of flowers there are as many as 100 kinds, collectively known as the god of flowers, and the folk have more nameless flowers and messy titles, and many flowers are abandoned, either Meng Wan feels sorry or Ying Shiyan feels sorry, Chen Xu simply made his own flower fairy brand perfume completely into a flower fairy group spectrum, and under the twelve main flower gods, they each made five sub-flower gods, which are used to represent different quality perfumes, Even Meng Wan wanted to arrange another maid for each flower god, but Chen Xu refused.
Continue to get it like this, this set of perfume will be completely scrapped in the end, the naming is too complicated, there are too many models, and it is often the most fatal hazard of a brand, in fact, according to Chen Xu's idea, twelve kinds are a bit much, just to please a good fortune, maybe not to get the twelve main gods, but to use the four seasons of flowers to name better.
However, the perfume has just begun, and the twelve kinds of floral fragrances must not be even, and after the flowers open in spring, it is estimated that there will be a few more, but Chen Xu does not have much knowledge and understanding of perfume according to later generations, among which rose, jasmine, gardenia, orange, lilac, honeysuckle, lavender and other fragrance types are the main, and there are few osmanthus flowers, because the aroma of osmanthus is relatively rich and sweet, and the perfume is mainly light, and many perfumes are not single fragrances, but mixed fragrances. Some even add many different woody or animal fragrance extracts to create a more unique and exotic scent.
Of course, Chen Xu will not care so much, there is no flower field specializing in planting all kinds of flowers at the moment, everything is collected wild, and whatever fragrance can be made, you can get any fragrance, because the current Daqin is not materially rich enough to need to specially open up flower fields to plant all kinds of flowers to make perfumes, this kind of commodity, at most, is a plundering of the rich class, in order to equalize the rich and poor, and let the poor people at the bottom pick flowers in their spare time to get some money to subsidize their families.
However, since he wants to do a good job in this business, Chen Xu also feels that he still needs to plan well in advance, all kinds of flowers are limited, at most ten days and half a month will be completely withered, and if he misses the flowering period, he will inevitably have to wait for another year, and the south is the main production area of flowers, Chen Xu needs to arrange people to go to all parts of the country to make some preparations in advance, and wait until the beginning of spring to collect a large number of flowers, dried flowers and various herbs to extract essential oils and flower dew.