According to Chen Xu's experience in preparing flower water, the content of essential oil will not exceed five percent, and half a tael of essential oil is dropped into a pound of alcohol and distilled water and shaken well, the color is almost invisible, and then divided into eight bottles of flower water, so that half a tael of essential oil has a value of 8,000 yuan.

Of course, the distilled pure alcohol is also a valuable item, but the value in it is negligible, a bottle of flower water is really expensive is the green crystal bottle and the gorgeous fragrant wood packaging box, the bottle needs thirty dollars to purchase from the glass factory, mainly the crystal collection and transportation cost is relatively large, and the fragrant wood packaging box is also made by skilled craftsmen in the wood workshop, and also carefully carved patterns and other complex steps, each purchase price is about forty yuan, but all the costs add up in the end, The price of a bottle of toilet water will not exceed a hundred yuan, and the profit will be at least ten times, which is still the cheapest one.

As for the real perfume, it uses a more crystalline colored crystal bottle and more gorgeous packaging, and there are silk handkerchiefs and glass droppers, as well as a product care and instruction manual for perfumes, but the price of a bottle of the same capacity is more than doubled, and two perfumes of the same flower type and different concentrations are quoted for 2,800 yuan and 5,800 yuan respectively, and the residual time of the fragrance is about one or two hours respectively.

Therefore, even the ladies who were invited to experience perfume today were not short of money, but in the face of such a high price, they all held their favorite perfumes, and their faces turned a little pale.

For their identity and status, a thousand yuan of toilet water can naturally afford to consume, but what they like must not be flower water, but real perfume.

It's like when a man goes to a horse market, he definitely likes those tall Hun horses, not a donkey who only grins.

"Today, a few people came to experience and put forward many valuable suggestions for our perfumes, so today's perfumes of these experience sets will also give you a 7% discount, and a bottle of flower water to express your gratitude!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Master Hou!" Several women were overjoyed in an instant, and gave a bottle of toilet water at a 7% discount, which was actually equivalent to half price, a discount that was almost never available in Qinghe stores.

"Don't be polite, if you have any feelings and suggestions in the future, you are welcome to come and discuss with Caiwei at any time, Caiwei will come over ......" Chen Xu beckoned Fan Caiwei over, "Give each of the ladies a VIP card, and you can get a nine-percent discount on perfume purchases in the future!" ”

"Hou Ye is really our great nobleman, I have to meet Hou Ye today, and I have saved a lot of money!" Several women instantly looked at Chen Xu with spring water in their eyes, if it weren't for Chen Xu's group of wives and concubines, it is estimated that they would rush up and press Chen Xu to the ground and ravage him to express their excitement.

Wanwan was also very excited, Chen Xu's move gave her enough face, and from now on she would have more influence in her interactions with these noble ladies.

Chen Xu's generosity was exchanged for the gratitude of a group of women, and the room instantly resounded with laughter, and they gathered together again to discuss more about perfume.

"Master Hou and a few ladies said that this perfume has never been sold to the public, but I heard a strange news in the palace yesterday, maybe it is related to perfume?" During the discussion, the female imperial officer in the palace said a little strangely.

"Is my sister mistaken, I only heard the word perfume in the Hou Ye's mansion yesterday, how can there be news in the palace?" Wanwan was very surprised and answered.

"Yes, several concubines have just said that this perfume has just been made for two or three days, and no outsiders have ever known about it......" Several other women also expressed disbelief.

Chen Xu's heart moved and roughly guessed the reason, so he waved his hand and said: "This matter is not impossible, when I extracted the floral essential oil in the laboratory to make perfume, there were some alchemists present at the time, and some experimental perfumes were also sent to these alchemists to take afterwards, I think it was passed on by those alchemists, but those perfumes are only crude products, not samples of your experience now, the difference is very big, can Imperial Official Su tell me what the news of the perfume in the harem is?" ”

"Master Hou forgives me, I just heard about it, I don't know the truth of the news, I heard that it is related to Concubine Yun......"

"Something to do with my mother?" Ying Shiyan stood up in surprise, and the two maids next to her hurriedly supported her.

"Fifth princess, don't worry, this news is a good thing, I heard that Your Majesty has gone to Concubine Yun's bedroom for three consecutive days to drink and rest, because of this matter, the whole harem is boiling, and suspicions are everywhere, and I secretly heard a news, saying that Concubine Yun has suddenly given birth to a fragrant floral smell in recent days, which tempts Your Majesty to be favored every day......"

The room was quiet, and everyone looked strange.

According to the situation described by the female imperial official, Concubine Yun got the perfume nine times out of ten.

Chen Xu pinched his chin and cried and laughed, the perfume that Concubine Yun got must have been passed down from the hands of Fang Shi, and someone gave it to Concubine Yun as he liked, but he didn't expect that the First Emperor would like the smell of perfume so much, and ran to warm up with Concubine Yun for three consecutive days.

If you learn that the perfume is officially listed, I am afraid that the entire harem will blow up the nest, all the concubines and palace maids want to get some perfume to smear on the body to seduce the emperor, but I don't know if the emperor is so old or not, and for the emperor's health and save the expenses of the Shaofu, it seems that there is a way to let the emperor streamline the harem, otherwise, when the first emperor dies, the miserable fate of thousands or even tens of thousands of women simply does not need to be carefully speculated......

The launch of the perfume was carried out in secret, because at the moment the production was not large.

The Qinghe Marquis Mansion arranges people to buy fresh flowers and plants such as osmanthus, chrysanthemums and vanilla near the fiefdom and Jingyang every day, and then transports them to the chemical laboratory to let a group of alchemists refine essential oils, but the output is outrageous, several sets of distillation equipment are all used, and only a few taels of essential oils are refined a day, and the concoction is only three or four catties of perfume of various grades, and it is not a good thing to let the laboratory that is not too big to specialize in the production of essential oils every day, which will delay other chemical research, Therefore, Chen Xu asked the housekeeper to go to Princess Huayu's Mansion in Jingyang County to clean up a few houses, prepare to install several sets of large-scale distillation equipment, which are used to refine various essential oils, spices, alcohol and distilled water, and set up a separate perfume workshop to research and develop perfumes.

Now most of Jingyang County is Chen Xu's food town, and the Huayu Princess Mansion of the fifth princess Ying Shiyan is in Jingyang County, but the palace Ying Shiyan who spent half a year to build this Shaofu has never lived, except for some palace maid guards, this palace has almost always been empty.

But this time with perfume, Chen Xu decided to get a good perfume, this kind of thing has a small investment, quick results and extremely high profits, and it is definitely the next most important profit growth point of Qinghe store.

The most important thing is that if there is no professional chemical experiment ability, the folk can not imitate it at all, and it is definitely an exclusive franchise, completely getting rid of the current tea, wine, porcelain and other crafts have begun to spread and popularize the industry.

At present, there are at least seven or eight brands of wine that Chen Xu knows in the whole Daqin, and there are many that have been circulated in a small range and have not been bought in Xianyang, so the process is no longer a secret, and in addition to wine, the mulberry wine produced in Wuzhong has also sprung up in the past two years, with a more moist taste and low price and sufficient quantity, it has quickly occupied a lot of markets, although the production and sales of wine have been growing in the past two years, but it is obvious that there has been a great decline.

The so-called Yangtze River back wave pushes the front wave, wine with the taste of the ordinary turbid wine, but mulberry wine also began to conquer consumers with price and different flavors, the market is now a situation of north and south, the north is dominated by wine, the south is dominated by mulberry wine, forming two different camps.

And Chen Xu's Qinghe wine is still so much every year, fixed three to five hundred bottles, this is Chen Xu's requirements, can improve the quality, but can not increase the quantity, the wine should be put into the cave of the wolf valley for refrigerated aging for more than three years, so although the price is still expensive, it is still aimed at those princes and princes and the top rich people, which is a stable income for Chen Xu, in order to ensure that the brand will not fall, limited quantity is the best way.

But as the expenses of the Hou Mansion became larger and larger, and Chen Xu's business empire became more and more open, the status of Qinghe Liquor in Chen Xu's eyes was declining day by day, because the speed of making money from it was almost unable to keep up with Chen Xu's consumption.

At the moment, the first-line products in Qinghe store are Qinghe wine, purple milk tea, crystal glass and Qinghe colored porcelain.

But like Qinghe wine, the number of purple milk fairy tea is more scarce, the annual output is only about 100 catties, and most of them are used to give away, almost not sold to the outside world, and although crystal glass and colored porcelain make money, but the sales are becoming more and more stable, most of them are occupied by the ordinary glass of the low-end glass factory and the ordinary porcelain of several ceramic factories in the southeast and northwest of Daqin.

The second-tier goods of the store are the tea leaves of the Jiangdong Tea House as an agent, mainly the big red robes of Taihu Biluochun and Wuyi Mountain, as well as the brocade of Wuzhong, the clothing designed by the women's college, and some folding fans and jade pendants and other accessories.

For Chen Xu, since the establishment of Huaxia Qianzhuang, the status of Qinghe store is declining day by day, and Chen Xu also decided to slowly build Qinghe store into a luxury brand store, after several adjustments, today's Qinghe store has long stopped selling ordinary items such as biscuits, candy, sweaters, towels, etc.

The emergence of perfume will once again enhance the leading position of Qinghe Store in the luxury industry, and will also add another fierce general to Qinghe's series of luxury goods.

But now it is already late autumn, and in another ten days and half a month, the flowers and plants of osmanthus chrysanthemums and herbs that are refined from essential oils have begun to wither and wither, and it seems that it is necessary to take the opportunity to let people collect more sun-dried flowers and plants.

After leaving Qinghe Shopping Mall, Chen Xu took a car to the newspaper office.

To collect dried flowers and plants, only near Xianyang is certainly not good, in fact, the south is the main production area of all kinds of flowers and plants, not only the number is large and the flowering period is long, although the quality of dried flowers is not as good as the quality of fresh flowers, the yield is high, but it can be preserved for a long time, can be processed all year round, and all kinds of essential oils are not only used to make perfumes, but also can be used in pharmaceutical and food production, and there is a more popular role, that is, the production of soap this cheaper daily toiletries.

Although Chen Xu has not yet experimented with the production of soap, he still knows some basic chemical principles, that is, the saponification reaction of oil, which he learned in high school chemistry courses, but he needs to go through experimental verification, success is certain, and in the end it just depends on the cost of production, if the cost is too great, the price will not be very cheap.

But originally these things were intended to be sold as luxury goods, fragrant women can only belong to those rich people, ordinary people take a bath very rarely, let alone take a bath with expensive soap, Chen Xu himself still remembers that he didn't use soap when he was a child, and the back of his ears was black. ()

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