Thanks for your detailed
feedback, idesign. Your analysis is accurate, except for the praise, which is neither accurate nor innaccurate.
Frankly, I agree totally about the one annoying note. I know exactly what you mean, and spent countless hours over
months in damage control trying to subtract it out or disguise it, with only modest success. It was a batch, not a
formula, so you're stuck with it.
It came from a mistake in adding one ingredient -- just the slightest touch
-- that I never should have added. It was much worse at first, trust me; and I was very depressed until progress was
made to "heal it". It is part of the top note, so it does go away, like you said.
Oh well, lots of good things
have a flaw. The best I can say is that I managed to make it a minor aspect over time. Like you said.
The fact
that it smells different every time you smell it bucks every trend in contemporary perfuming, which tends toward
simple "consorts" that always smell the same. The professional "Nose" who smelled it had that as his primary
criticism. So it's kind of guerrilla perfume in that way.
Anyway, in order to have it be the same all the
time, you have to age every oil just the right amount of time, which means you have to be working for a multimillion
dollar international perfume corporation with a huge budget set aside for your particular product. A small detail.
Personally, I don't mind the kaleidoscope effect. Makes life more interesting; more organic. That's the way
life is; and the way people are too.
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