Chapter 496 – #105_Perfume Tycoon (3)
#496
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As for Sharon, it was just a little heartbreaking.
I want to hang out with Siu and spend time with him, but since he only cares about Amelia, he doesn’t come to see Sharon or her twins.
He knows about Amelia’s situation after hearing about it from Siwoo.
What kind of wounds did she have, why did the two of them separate, and what kind of twists and turns did they meet again.
But even though he understands, he can’t help but hate Amelia a little in a corner of his heart.
Putting everything else aside, Sharon saw firsthand that Siu was caught up in the disaster Amelia had created and brought to the brink of death.
When he crawls into a place where he’s supposed to be dead.
When the only thing I could do for him was shallow elemental reinforcement.
When the judgment of the Duke of Erelim embroidered the sky because the time was not right.
When she eventually returns with her left arm permanently missing.
Sharon felt her heart tear into a thousand pieces.
Siwoo is still alive because Amelia fulfilled Duke Keter’s killing department, but I can’t forget the shock that the world seemed to collapse at that time.
Maybe that’s why there was more friction than between the twins and Eloa.
But all things considered.
It was an imprudent thing to say.
“I’m sorry….”
Sharon honestly bowed her head and apologized.
She pursed her lips and thought about adding something more rhetoric, but she gave up.
No matter what she gave reasons for, it was because she wanted to be nothing more than excuses that she hesitated to repeat.
“… It’s okay. I’m a little excited too.”
Amelia, meanwhile, was struck by a blow to her head.
It wasn’t because Sharon’s words were outrageous slander.
Rather, it was a statement that was closer to the truth.
Siu enthusiastically helps Amelia.
He devotes most of his time to Amelia, including extracting essential oils and helping out at the store.
That inevitably meant taking Siu away from other lovers.
However, Siu never showed such signs.
At the base of it lies careful consideration for Amelia.
A hand like handling fragile pottery.
Delusion permeates
At least as far as Amelia knows, Siu is kind.
He’s the type of person who loses for the sake of others, enough to be called a hogu.
If so, isn’t there a gap between his true intentions and his actions?
The truth is he wants to spend time with another lover too, but isn’t he tied down to take care of himself?
I couldn’t deny it.
Amelia bluntly ignores that fact and that she’s been monopolizing him.
It might be natural for Sharon to come and complain about her.
If it had been Amelia the other day, it would have been a mental breakdown, but the time with Siwoo was not wasted time.
Amelia, who made up her mind first, immediately apologized for her mistake, then looked at Sharon, who was terrified, and even realized that she had no malice in her words.
It’s a well-deserved backlash.
Even if Amelia were in her opposite situation, it might not have been much different.
“…….”
“…….”
– Squeak
The moment we were hesitant about what to say to each other.
At good timing, Siwoo came down the old wooden stairs.
“I brought all the oils you said.”
“Thanks. Please leave it here.”
After her brief lull, Amelia calmed her mind with her deep breath.
She is still distraught and wants to ask Si-woo, but it is time for her to do her job now.
Sharon is a customer before a rival, and Amelia doesn’t care about the responsibilities given to her.
Put complex issues aside for a while.
Amelia spread the essential oils Siwoo gave her on the steering rack.
The perfume making process is often likened to composition.
A delicate and artistic work that creates notes and accords by combining countless spices.
Amelia poured high-purity alcohol into a beaker and picked out the essential oils one by one.
Just as the ‘notes’ of her perfumes generally take the three-tiered pyramid configuration, so too did Amelia’s.
The first scent you can feel for about 10 minutes after first spraying the scent, the top note.
The middle note, the heart of the perfume, comes in abundance when the light and volatile top note disappears.
Finally, when enough time has passed since the perfume was applied, the finale, where the reverberation mixed with body odor spreads gently, is the base note.
The first step in steering is to frame the theme to be expressed in this base note.
It would be better to say that incense is built from the lowest level as if building a pyramid.
From this moment on, neither Sharon nor Siwoo have anything to do.
The theme that Amelia thought of when she saw Sharon was the harmonious combination of innocence and sensuality, growth.
Based on vanilla, iris and resin, several essential oils are mixed.
The skeleton of the fragrance that I drew in my head is caught and the outline is revealed.
Second task.
It is the work of attaching flesh to the frame of the perfume thus created.
The essential oil used at this time is called a modifier, and it is a process of coloring on a sketch called a base note.
Amelia’s choice is ylang ylang, rose, jasmine, cinnamon, lime, bergamot, daffodil, and dozens of other fragrances.
Every time she picks up her little spice bottle and drops it into her beaker, the enchanting scent vibrates with her ripples.
Even Sharon opened her eyes wide and focused on the process of carving out and sometimes adding incense, which was rough and crude and did not reveal its shape properly.
Each time her fingertips dropped a small drop, the breadth, thickness, and charm of her fragrance changed quickly.
Third task.
The work of adding top notes, the prelude to perfume.
At the same time, it was also a task to coordinate the smooth harmony between the base note and the middle note.
Whether to add one kind of spice or not, whether to add one more drop or take less.
As many spices are already mixed, one drop of wrong choice can ruin the whole thing.
It requires meticulousness and delicacy as a very minor difference can change the fragrance of the perfume.
Therefore, it is usually necessary to go through trial and error while preparing the steering chart, but it was unnecessary work for Amelia.
She completed all the spice combinations in an instant, without mistakes, leaving everything to intuition and artistic inspiration.
“Whoa….”
Amelia let out her breath and lightly enchanted the finished perfume.
Originally, after the previous three steps, it is common to add a fragrance to make the fragrance last for a long time, harmonize the fragrance through aging, and deodorize unnecessary fragrance, but Amelia shortens the series of processes with magic.
This created a magical perfume that does not change its scent even after hundreds of years.
“That’s Okay. As an additional magic effect, the enhancement of vitality was added. Try it out.”
Sharon, who was admiring Amelia’s flamboyant hand, nodded her head as she came to her senses.
Missing the time to apologize, Amelia grabbed Sharon by the wrist and lightly dabbed a drop of her cologne.
“The magic will speed up the progression of her incense so you can go through the whole note.”
“… Yes.”
Sharon is somewhat disturbed by Amelia’s attitude, who seems to be doing nothing.
However, the moment she closes her eyes and inhales her incense, she shakes off her thoughts and a fantasy unfolds.
The place is an orchard.
The time is the boundary between late summer and autumn.
Sharon, a girl reaching for a heavy branch hanging over her sunset garden, holds a fresh green apple in her hand, as if it had just been harvested.
As soon as she opened her mouth and carefully bit into the apple, the apple had already turned into an orange.
Rather than just refreshing, it’s authentic.
The juice from the orange that had been bitten down her chin and dug into her breasts, feeling buried in the scent of the innocent girl’s flesh.
The scent of fresh fruit has changed to a powdery vanilla scent with a slight sensuality.
It’s not the kind of vanilla scent that numbs her head.
Like lightly topped whipped cream, the softness that melts away just by touching the tip of her tongue.
Like the sweetness of a first kiss, the vanilla scent that gently wrapped around Sharon’s body turned into lightly diluted caramel syrup and melted all over her body.
Until Sharon, who knew nothing, opened her eyes to her fresh love, went through her first kiss as if walking in her dream, and became a man’s woman.
The narrative of getting wet with her sweetness was all melted into it.
“I named the perfume ‘Jusqu’à ce qu’une fille devienne une femme’.”
That means until a girl becomes a woman.
I thought it was just a scent, but I can’t even express it this far.
Sharon rubbed the goose bumps on her forearms as she felt a thrill close to her.
It was only for a moment that she forgot all about her quarrel with Amelia and how she had spoken harsh words to her.
Sharon expressed admiration for her artist in her candid praise.
“Awesome, I like it. How can there be such a perfume?”
“I’m glad you like it.”
Siu transferred the perfume into an empty bottle and packed it in a box.
Amelia cleans up her bottle as if her work is done, and Sharon hesitates as she sees her.
First of all, I want to apologize for my mistake, and I want to have a conversation in various ways….
It’s not an atmosphere to talk about.
At that time, Siwoo, who was holding the trial, suddenly intervened.
“Sharon.”
“Yes?”
“But you…. It’s okay?”
Sharon’s pride would be hurt by her actions, and Siwoo only revealed her nuances so that Amelia wouldn’t hear.
Perhaps she is worried about financial problems.
It was the same when we first met her, and since Sharon has only shown herself in a slump in front of Siwoo, she can’t be that way.
Although she was weary of her poverty, it was nothing servile or shameful.
What’s more, since she took over her twin’s classes, she’s accumulated quite a bit of money.
“Of course, I’ve paid off all my debts and got a job, but what?”
“Okay? Then you can sign here.”
Sharon, who reassured Siwoo by stretching out her chest, looked at the bill on her settlement board with a relaxed smile.
And she was so surprised that her heart jumped out of her mouth.
One 2.5 fl.Oz bottle of perfume.
First of all, the cost of perfume for tasting, which was used for taste verification, was charged to Sharon as if it were natural.
In addition to the basic preparation cost, special raw material costs are added, and customized steering service costs are also added.
Added super pretty sapper value, added extra magic effect cost.
8.5% VAT added to the total amount.
“That, 122.2 pounds of gold coins… ?”
I heard rumors that her special perfume is expensive.
She is Sharon, who thought she could solve it with 10 gold coins.
Of course, even 10 gold coins was not a small cost for Sharon to invest for a bottle of perfume.
However, she knew that Amelia did not like her and that she had done a lot for her sister-in-law apart from her, and she did not want her to suffer in her debt like herself.
So she decided that she would be happy to sell her perfume, even if it wasn’t much help.
However, the amount written on the bill was close to 100 million won.
That’s enough money to buy five more dresses that Sharon wears for the first time in her life, ambitiously tailored.
I looked at Amelia with my eyes wide open at the shocking expense, which far exceeded the expected budget by 12 times.
Where is this!
Are you taking revenge for your earlier mistakes in this way?
However, Amelia was tidying up her steering gear without even looking at Sharon, and it was none other than Siu who handed over her payment board.
There is no such thing as rip-off like the smugglers in the mortal dock.
Sharon teaches Odile and Odette and is supported by the Countess of Gemanai.
However, since her tuition has been slashed by the cancellation of her existing debt, only the cost of maintaining her dignity and subsidies for her research come into Sharon’s pocket.
Those two grants alone weren’t small, but it was a fairly tight budget for Sharon, who had to spend all her jewels just to study her magic.
The household account book that goes round and round in my head.
This expense was painful enough to disrupt research for at least several months.
I’m not a real customer, and I can’t ask for a refund now.
It hurts my pride even to ask for a cut.
Sharon held her pen in her trembling hand and looked at Siu with a weeping expression.
“Ho, is it possible to pay in installments… ?”
Finally paid in 12 monthly installments.
Sharon’s shoulders looked very heavy as she held the box of her perfume in her arms after her casual greeting.
