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They will drag the garden stuff out for the next month or two or three. I’d like them to give an update on their candle sales. Have they sold one yet?
If yes, who was the fool?
Look at the Smug's pretentious shite on their website they're so patronising but as well as having an annoying voice she can't even spell business:
Philipp was always obsessed with high quality candles. He’s the nose of our family, he can almost always guess the ingredients of food just by smelling and our daughter Lily seems to be taking after him - when we let her smell wine for the first time, (a burgundy) she said it smells of chocolate and raspberries. Which is typical for Pinot Noir grapes!
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Fragrance was a dimension Philipp wanted to work on, but it’s not an area either of us had experience in.
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Now maybe it would have been easier to go to a candle company, pick a scent from their catalogue and have them produce it with our own logo, but Philipp being Philipp, wanted to make it as personal as possible, from designing the packaging to making the scent himself. With his overboarding optimism, he hoped to work with a real perfumer to create our own unique fragrances, inspired by our chateau.
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He did his research, asked his cousin Katalin, who had some experience in dealing with raw materials in the beauty industry for help and finally approached the Parisian nose Nathalie Feisthauser with his project.
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I still don't know how Philipp managed to convince Nathalie, who works for the most prestigious perfume brands, to develop two incredible bespoke and complex fragrances for our small and new bussiness. We feel extremely grateful and privileged that she understood and believed in our project right from the beginning.
Philipp had two fragrances in mind, but we had to learn how to communicate these ideas to the nose, so she would have a starting point. This is like learning a new language, with a whole new vocabulary. It took a while for him to make sense to our perfumer, but eventually she grasped what Philipp had in mind and came up with first proposals, a selection of small sample candles.
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We spent a lot of time smelling them unlit, then lit, noting down what we liked and what we wanted to tweak. It was a long process of back and forth, with 11 samples, whittling them down and refining until we finally came to a result, that didn’t only match but exceeded our expectations: Our two wonderful new fragrances Seize Mai and Salon d'Hiver which are clearly the work of a master perfumer.
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