170, fragrant recipe inheritance
In just a few days, the first batch of trial bottles from the Wen family have been made.
The initial improvements were also completed in the incense shop. The fragrance was moved to the first floor, the rouge powder was moved to the second floor, and a screen was used to simply divide the location of a small conference room.
What surprised Xiaoxiao was Wen Xixiu's speed. He mentioned the soft pen with a sponge head last time. The Wen family has made a few branches. Although it is a bit rougher than the modern beautiful pen, it is better because it is portable and practical, at least it doesn't need to grind and dip ink.
"The content of today's negotiations must be kept confidential." This is what Master Wen's opening remarks are.
Xiaoxiao naturally understood the principle of confidentiality and nodded with Xizi.
Wen Xixiu was still wearing a white dress, with a white jade hairpin in a shiny bun, and a soft pen holding a tortoiseshell pen tube made a simple and concise record: "According to what you said, all the fragrance dews were numbered. Calculated the fragrance dews made by ancestors from generation to generation, there are 307 kinds, of which nearly half are mainly roses."
Three hundred and seven types? So many? The most famous perfume brands in modern times cannot own hundreds of perfumes.
It seems that from the hundreds of years since the Song Dynasty to the Long Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty, excellent perfumers have appeared in every generation of the Wen family. Moreover, these perfume methods and techniques have been preserved and inherited in valuable ways.
When it comes to nose, sometimes you have to believe in blood and talent.
Xiaoxiao found that Xizi also showed surprise. It seemed that even the eldest daughter of the Wen family did not know how much incense recipe the ancestors of the Wen family had left behind. The content of the meeting needs to be kept confidential, which is indeed necessary.
"How many of the most sold types in the past ten years?" Xiaoxiao sat at the table because she came with Xizi after school at noon. She was still wearing a simple learning skirt.
Xizi has been accompanying his brother to work on various things about the shop in recent days. He has a slightly dark circle at school every morning, but he is full of energy. At this moment, he quickly found the account book in the shop: "Even if it was out, the total number of varieties sold is only about twenty. Among them, the most popular one is the fragrance of a single flower, such as rose dew, peony dew, etc. These fragrances are only one flower material, but they are very popular among people. In addition, there are five or six better-selling compound fragrances, and the customers are only fixed."
"Did no one buy the other 200 kinds of fragrances, or did they not try their best to promote them?"
Xizi frowned: "Sometimes they will introduce new flavors to customers, but many people are more accustomed to what they often use, and some people will feel that the taste is not pure enough."
The concept of the people of the Yuanlong Dynasty was still in the Rose Water era of the Great Food Kingdom. Rose Water must have a strong smell of roses and roses. Why do you add jasmine and mint to it? Is this cutting corners? Don’t fool us with these things!
Xiaoxiao was a little dissatisfied: "Have you ever seen the three fragrance dews that Brother Wen gave me last time?"
"No," Wen Xixiu's expression was a little disdainful, "No one can smell many of them clearly."
Is this a kind of praise for me? Xiaoxiao paused and quickly protested: "Prejudgment. My mother is the first person to praise it. The bottle of orchids with the fragrance of bamboo leaves is light, but she likes it tightly, saying that the smell is like an ink painting, and she volunteered to give the name orchid and bamboo picture." Xiaoxiao scratched her head, feeling a little embarrassed. "My mother also said that it smells better than the orchids and bamboo leaves alone, and is as far away as the Book of Songs..."
Wen Xixiu's expression was a little embarrassed, and she pursed her lips without saying a word. It seemed that this fragrance was his handwriting.
"There is also the orange rose beeswax mansion. Yesterday, our house held a family dinner. My second sister asked twice, where the smell of roses came from, but it didn't look like it. Later, it smelled it was floating out of me. Several sisters chased me and asked where I bought it! Described the smell as cute and clever." Xiaoxiao said it in one breath. He really needed the audience too much, and others would not understand his excitement.
Xizi lived up to his responsibilities and was excited: "Really?! I remember that Ruicai, a former elder, asked you too! And her two cousins!"
Wen Xixiu smiled faintly: "This is the fragrance dew that my grandfather deserves when he was young. The taste was too heavy before, so I reduced the amount of benzoin."
What a charming Old Master Wen, Xiaoxiao held his cheek with one hand, and the breath on his wrist floated to his nose: "I simply put the name 'best friend' to it."
"Thinking of this, that taste is really suitable for 'best friends'!" Xizi looked at the two of them, "Do we want to name the fragrance on the cabinet now?"
Xiaoxiao looked through the plan he wrote: "My suggestion is to keep only the twenty best-selling types before. The single flower material is still named after the flower material, and the composite flower material is given a new name. Then, a series of new flavors of fragrance are launched every month. Of course, most of these fragrances are taken from inventory or improvements in inventory. Since they are the fragrances left by the Wen family generation, we should regard them as treasures." Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief. More than 300 are enough to sell for a lifetime. Even if Wen Siye has no creative inspiration, these fragrances are enough. If promoted properly, some flavors may become the fragrance of the past.
"Only twenty types are placed?" Xizi was anxious to see the improvement of the shop.
"You can't be fat in one bite," Xiaoxiao smiled slightly. "We have to make a lot of preparations in advance for every product launched in the future, set the theme, name, design the packaging, calculate the cost, set the price, and advertise it..." As he said, he picked up the small trial package on the table, "These trial packages can be used first, and the twenty kinds of fragrance dew on the cabinet are divided into part of the trial package, so that customers can try fragrance at any time. The original price, taste and packaging of fragrance dew should not change." Products that have been successfully launched must maintain quality. After all, there are many old customers who only recognize old brands. These people must gather, and they may be potential customers of new products. Xiaoxiao showed a bright smile: "Don't forget to put that 'best friend' on the cabinet, and a large group of girls in our family are waiting to buy it."
Xizi smiled and asked, "Our first new product has not been selected yet. Do you have any idea?"
"I have made a new fragrance these days, and I can bottle it tonight." Wen Xixiu talked about the topic of fragrant soup, and the noodles were like spring breeze. "I will take Xiaowan to school tomorrow, and I will smell it in Yingyuan."
When the two girls heard the birth of the new smell of fragrant dew, they looked forward to it.
Wen Xixiu looked at him and smiled: "About the bottle, can Yingyuan try to think of a look, with the theme of letters."
"Letter?" Although Xiaoxiao was puzzled, there was a slight light deep in his heart.
"Yes, letters, letters, in short, are the way to write letters," Wen Xixiu held a transparent trial bottle in his hand, shaking it gently, and the cold waves of water were reflected in his eyes. "The specific fragrance has not been selected yet, and there may be three or even four bottles to add the theme of this letter. All I can think of is a thin envelope or square bottle of letter paper, which feels very rigid, but if it is made into the form of a wild geese or Pisces, it may appear shallow because of the chiseling. I am an amateur in the painting. If Yingyuan has ingenious ideas, I can make people draw it. Let's modify it slowly. The first bottle must always look different."
Xiaoxiao nodded slowly and said to herself: There is no need to spend the money to ask others to draw. It should not be difficult for Tang Xiaoxiao to draw a bottle.
The sound of moving tables and chairs came from outside the screen. Xiaoxiao saw through the burning glass screen that the guys brought a new round table teahouse, a round maple round table with a diameter of about two feet, and the same round wooden chair was covered with a round rose velvet chair cushion. It was filled with sponges as Xiaoxiao said.
Xiaoxiao couldn't help but smile, everything was going on in an orderly manner, just waiting for the new product to be launched.
"Master," Wen Xixiu's servant Yu Jin reported outside the screen, "The people from the Shen family are here."
Xizi said first: "But come and give the glass bottle you tried? Then ask him to send it in." As he said that, he looked at Xiaoxiao with anticipation.
Yu Jin's voice hesitated for a moment: "Go back to the girl, the person coming is their boss."
The boss? It's just a glass bottle, why did it alarm the boss?
Wen Xixiu heard this and nodded to the two of them, then stood up and left. Before going downstairs, he instructed Yu Jin, "Let Jiang Zhen change the hot tea, put the new snack in a box, and treat Miss Tang."
Xiaoxiao picked up the warm plum tea and took a sip: "Yu Jin, Jiang Zhen, listen to the names of these servants, will your brother burn incense and incense yourself?"
Xizi nodded: "In his opinion, the smell of incense and steamed dew are the same. Even when steamed dew, he often uses natural fragrant wood, and when making fragrant cakes, he often uses flowers."
"The Fourth Brother Wen is the real person who knows fragrance." Xiaoxiao sincerely admired, "Although I love Xianglu, I know nothing about Xiangdao."
Xizi was very proud of her best friend who could appreciate her brother. She smiled and shared the fragrance recipe she knew with her friends: "For example, the famous Jiangnan Li main tent is to put the rose water in it. This is also the commonality between fire fragrance and water fragrance." Xizi was interested when she saw Xiaoxiao, and said, "I remember when I was a child, my fourth brother took me to make fragrance pills. We immersed the dried flowers of white plums and white peaches, with fresh white roses and white lotus in white musk liquid, soaked them all night. After taking them out the next day, add sandalwood powder and rosin powder, and make fragrance pills with honey, put them in copper fragrance balls and smoked them through fire, and hang them on the bed tent with long silk rope dyed with blue. The smell is really as lingering as a dream."
"It sounds like a scent, as if you smell it." Xiaoxiao didn't feel fascinated, "And you have four brothers, I'm so envious."
Xizi listened to the sharpening tone of laughter, especially the word "four", as if he had four emperors...
Chapter completed!