Working with Callum, who has the ability to smell colours.
This meaning that a scent to him has a colour and a colour has a scent.
We went in search of creating the Perfect Blue.
In conversation with this very gifted young man I found out that he can smell colours. Presented with all the essential oils in my collection he selected all the blue scents. He did this without reading the labels and then put them onto a colour wheel. According to him they ranged from light blues and turquoise to almost purply blues.
We then started by making a top note using citrus and fruit essential oils. Once Callum was happy and able to place the note on the colour wheel we proceeded to make a heart note in a separate vial.
When happy with this note and able to tell that it was going to make the light blue top note a little darker we put it together with the top note. Very happy with the result we repeated the step to make a bottom note. This also we added to the blend.
He says the scent has the translucent turquoise blue of the sea in coves with sandy bottoms. When you wave your wrist about in front of your nose it smells like the sea lapping against some rocks.
To my nose it is a surprisingly rounded and perfect scent.
While looking for a colour wheel I found this photo of the Colour Wheel that Johan Wolfgang Goethe made that symbolises the human spirit. In the blue part of the spectrum he has sensuality and fantasy.
We are currently looking for the perfect bottle, designing the perfect label and making the perfect blue velvet sacks to present them in. Hopefully it will all be ready in time for christmas.
calle Corderia 28
Palma de Mallorca
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