Floating Perfume Shop

Chapter 12 Joy

The fragrance and makeup industry has not been calm recently.

The time for the finals of the rookie show has not yet come, and the time for the major judging committees to nominate awards has not yet come. The bet between Yashe and Lotus on imitating "Melancholy" has not yet reached the time for the lottery showdown, and it should have been calm.If someone buys gossip magazines like "perfume. Xiang", they will find that it has become a mess.

First, Ming Qing Tang suddenly stood up and pointed out that Lotus's upcoming new product was suspected of plagiarism.

Lotus must stand up and fight back.

The second boss of Lotus, Zhou Tianhao, was the one who came out to speak. He was very innocent: "Is there any evidence for plagiarism? You can accuse your friends of plagiarism based on rumors. Ming and Qingtang is too out of style, right? Some people say that their temperament is very similar to mine. , I didn’t say that my friends copied my face because they thought I was handsome? There must be evidence in everything.”

Qian Shen over at the Ming and Qing Hall has already started scolding, who is your friend in Japan, you are so handsome that you have a pot on your head.

But I have to make a promise to the media in a good voice: "There will be evidence, how can I doubt my friend out of thin air?"

The upcoming perfume is called "Joy", a pleasing fragrance in the deep winter, with melon and cinnamon as the top notes, rose as the middle note, and teak wood and musk as the base.This configuration is indeed somewhat similar to the popular perfume "goldenday" in Ming and Qing dynasties.However, Lotus fans must not be convinced if it is said to be plagiarized based on similarity.

If you are not convinced, just pinch.

At the end of the day, it's still the same old saying - there is evidence.

Of course Xiao Chongyun subscribes to magazines every month.Standing in front of the glass counter were two little girls who came to buy perfume, flipping through Boss Xiao's magazine and having a heated discussion: "I don't believe that Lotus will plagiarize, what is the proof?"

"'Joy' will be launched in more than a month. At that time, I could tell whether it was copied by smelling it with my nose. Do I need to prove it now?" A loyal fan of a perfumer, "Lotus is unreasonable."

……

The magazine is about to be torn in half.

"Ming Qing Tang is not worried about low-level plagiarism such as similar fragrances."

When the little girl looked up, she finally spotted the boss behind the counter.

"Sometimes what you smell is very simple and pleasant, but it actually comes from a complex fragrance process, which is composed of a variety of breaths that are almost indistinguishable to ordinary people. The secret of this complex fragrance process is a bunch of special fragrances. The chemical formulas and process flow, the information must be so thick——” Xiao Chongyun stretched out his hand to reach a height, “What Ming and Qingtang really suspected was not the plagiarism of the fragrance that was hyped up by the media and made it easier for everyone to understand. He doubted his own secrets. The data was leaked. Stealing company secrets is illegal, but unless there is evidence, even if the other party's perfume is on the market, it is difficult to sue based on speculation. After all, what if the other party is just using the other party's reference to infer other cases from one instance?"

It's been a while since Zhou Tianhao tricked him into opening a room and getting his hair cut. Thanks to the recent move of the little ghost to the perfume shop to monitor the internal affairs, although Xiao Chongyun's personal image has rebounded slightly, at least he has swept away the decadence of the past. A cold, quite similar to that of the Eastern Prince of Grasse.

The attention of the two girls has shifted to the face of the boss, a little confused: ""I used to remember that the boss was a bearded uncle, finally changed? "

Xiao Chongyun gave each girl a sample of the perfume in the store: "Oh, if you want to know, please leave a QQ account. I have a new idea, and I will report it to you online."

He handed over a piece of paper on which the penguin number was written, and turned around: "Xiao Songsong, where is the pen?"

"There is no water."

The answer was so fast that Boss Xiao suddenly found that the kid was standing gloomy behind him.

"Where's the ballpoint pen?"

"broken."

"Pencil?" Boss Xiao asked for the next best thing.

"You were going to run away that day, so you packed it yourself, but I couldn't find it." Zhang Song quickly squeezed into a position, and began to sell perfume on behalf of his boss who was looking for a pencil: "Miss, this perfume is not suitable for you." ... This one is not suitable either... cheaper? There is no discount, but there is a perfume shop on the left when you go out, and the price is cheaper than ours, so go right now and still hold activities."

The two girls accepted the advice, went out with smiles, and asked Zhang Song: "Does your boss have a girlfriend? I didn't realize that the boss of this store is quite handsome."

"By the way, brother, you look a little familiar. It looks like the perfumer in the top eight rookie shows... What's the name of that person, Zhang Song?"

"got the wrong person."

When Xiao Chongyun came back with a pencil, he was very disappointed to see the little ghost arranging the perfume bottles by himself in front of the counter.

Boss Xiao, who failed to strike up a conversation, decided to find something for his apprentice to do.

Otherwise, I will not let go of my empty, lonely and cold mood.

"Smell it, and see if you can write the recipe for the cinnamon fragrance here." Throwing a hexagonal perfume bottle across the air, watching Zhang Song catch it, he got up to take the scent paper, and opened the bottle cap.

"This is the golden day of the Ming and Qing halls." Zhang Song said, "It is rumored to have plagiarized that."

"Yes."

Xiao Chongyun watched the little ghost earnestly write the formula on the paper, string after string of chemical formulas, sitting bored: "Don't you ask me why I let you imitate it now?"

"I'm afraid if I ask the wrong question, you will leave."

"..."

Zhang Song knows that the boss has restricted areas that cannot be touched, such as the nose, such as Zhang Wenshan of Yashe.Accidentally bumping into one of them may trigger the hidden copy of running away from home.Zhang Wenshan has already known the Achilles' heel, and the key point is that he doesn't know the triggering conditions of other restricted areas, so he learned his lesson and chose not to ask.

Xiao Chongyun had a very headache.

"I won't default on your wages. You can go back to school and sleep at night." He negotiated with the kid, "It's too bad to put the floor on the door of the room. Every time I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I have to step over you. My old arm Old legs, it is a crime to accidentally step on the flowers of the motherland."

Zhang Song concentrated on appreciating the fragrance and ignored him.

Xiao Chongyun had no choice but to try to exercise his sense of smell, trying to find the cinnamon fragrance diffused in the air from the complicated aromas.

When he still had a normal nose, he stood in the natural fresh air, closed his eyes, and knew which flowers bloomed in the garden that day.When you walk into the study room, you can smell the aloes from the solid wood desk, touch the cups, and even feel the lingering fragrance of the last cup of coffee.

It would be fine if there were no phantom smells.

Back then, the kid had asked him bluntly what was wrong with his nose.

It's not that Xiao Chongyun can't smell it at all, but is always surrounded by some illusory smells, so that he can't tell whether a certain smell is real or illusory.

Now his nose is filled with the light rose scent, no matter how hard he tries, he can't smell the shadow of golden day.

Xiao Chongyun knew that this rose scent must have come from his past olfactory memory reserves. In the dark confinement at the beginning, in order to survive the difficult time, he squeezed out his memory, took the illusion as reality, and finally reaped the fruit.

After wasting a long time and getting nothing, the very tired Boss Xiao reviewed the homework of his students and changed two places with a pen: "Go to the fragrance room and try it out. If it's not the same, see if I change the fragrance more closely. Tomorrow Qingtang’s perfumer’s style is relatively light and graceful, so you’re a little too heavy handed.”

Within three days, Xiao Chongyun changed the formula of cinnamon fragrance twice, until finally, Zhang Song's judgment was completely consistent.

Only once in three days, he was lucky, and he smelled a little perfume from the burnt smell of hallucinations.The subsequent guidance is entirely based on the olfactory memory of that time.After the recipe came out, he called Zhang Song over and asked him to bring the materials and samples to Lotus and hand them over to Zhou Tianhao.

"Guess why I asked you to imitate this fragrance?"

Xiao Chongyun stared at the students, thinking that you should not worry, guess quickly, guess quickly, ask me why, ask me why, if you don’t talk about it, I will get internal injuries!

"Why?" The little devil was absent-minded.

"Do you know why Mingqingtang has been standing still during this plagiarism incident? Because the ghosts they set up in Lotus are trying to get evidence of Lotus's plagiarism. Like a mountain, there will be a good show to watch at that time. It probably doesn't know that the incident of stealing the formula by itself has been exposed last time. This time it is just a show specially performed for it to watch. The "proof of plagiarism" is now in your hands Here, when you give it to Boss Zhou, he will let people watch the information secretly for 24 hours, and arrest people immediately if the other party makes a move. At that time, it will be hard to say who will go to court for stealing secrets." Xiao Chongyun said earnestly, "So , make perfume, the heart is upright, the fragrance is pure and clear. Works like Ming Qingtang that have long followed the non-mainstream evil style have no future."

……

During the nagging, the kid had already walked to the door of the shop.

Xiao Chongyun lamented that the reason why he chose to stay was because he wanted to give the students a hard time in the limited time.Probably the kid won't understand the meaning of what Lao Tzu asked him to do recently.

day.

As a result, Zhang Song took two steps, then turned back and looked at him.

"What's the matter, didn't you bring your bus card?"

"Don't sneak away while I'm out." The weather was a bit cold, and Zhang Song's eyes were wet, I don't know if it was from the freezing, or what, it looked like a puppy that was about to be abandoned by its owner, and it instantly made people feel affectionate ,"teacher."

Xiao Chongyun touched his nose.

After all, Zhang Song hadn't graduated from university yet, he was only a young student, he was participating in a perfume rookie show for the first time, he had no experience, and he offended one of the judges. If he left now, he would really feel no need to rely on him.

He was thinking about how to comfort the little ghost, but just as he was about to speak, there was no one in front of him.

gone……

fast enough...

Young people are good.

The matter ended so quickly that a week later, Lotus caught an assistant perfumer in the R&D department's fragrance room.The assistant was opening the copied key into the safe late at night, and when the "Joy" information was taken and sent, the lights suddenly came on brightly, illuminating a room full of security guards and surveillance cameras.

At that time, the assistant also tried to negotiate: "Yes, I just took money from another company to go undercover. The name of Ming Qingtang was still on the information I sent just now. It is true that you have stolen confidential evidence. Why don't you talk to my boss?" Let me go back and pursue it less?"

In front of the security guard stood a yawning man in pajamas holding a coffee cup.

Su Lan yawned a lot: "You came to my studio, smelled the samples I put on the table, and found that one of the scents that is very difficult to imitate is exactly the same as goldenday, and you heard that I got the internal secrets of the Ming and Qing Hall. It’s a rumor, isn’t it? And after groping, you know that the evidence is in this safe, don’t you?”

He glanced at the humble little assistant sadly: "But I told you, the source of the cinnamon fragrance formula has nothing to do with Ming Qingtang. It's just that I lost a perfume before, and somehow it was found by your boss. It's on sale there."

Finding the ghost is very important.

If internal troubles are not eliminated, you will never know how many secrets you have, which are being grasped by competitors.

As for the punishment method for the found insider, how to negotiate with the boss of the other party to obtain the maximum benefit, each company has its own method, Xiao Chongyun is not interested, he only knows that the last two did not go to court.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that Qian, the boss of Mingqingtang, received the inside information in the middle of the night, got up overjoyed, enlarged the information on the computer, and found that it had nothing to do with the golden day formula except for the illusion caused by the format and layout.The last paragraph is still a greeting: "Old Qian, as a friend, I actually don't mind if you copy my handsome face, as long as Su Lan's formula is fine. Happy New Year ahead of time. ——Zhou Tianhao."

Qian Shen almost threw the notebook on the ground and split it in half: "Fuck, we just have similar taste in clothes!"

Soon "Joy" was launched in a low-key manner, without any infringing formula. Although the fragrance is similar to "goldenday", the style is quite different.

It's like the fabric of the same color family, after being cut by different people, finally becomes the difference between an evening dress and a tablecloth.

Of course not that exaggerated.

Because the author of "Joy" is signed by Zhang Song.

"Isn't that the practice work you instructed me to do?! Said to be 'Trying hands with the theme of Lotus's upcoming new product...'" The child was still a little immature and unprepared, so he pointed out the advertisement in the magazine .

Xiao Chongyun was downloading pornographic videos on a terribly slow desktop computer, and he was in a good mood: "I don't need your work, why should I agree to help Zhou Tianhao imitate fragrance?"

The ad is actually very small. Lotus bought a full-page ad when it promoted its main fragrance, and put a photo of joy in the corner as big as a soda bottle cap.Basically just low-key publicity by the way.

"The production volume is very small, because the perfume is made with a purpose like acting, so the risk is very high." Xiao Chongyun touched the student's head, "If you want to imagine the scenery like the advertisement picture in the middle, you have to continue to work hard."

Thunder is not strong, unfortunately crashed, the whole computer blue screen.

"I only encountered three times in my life when I downloaded a pornographic blue screen." Xiao Chongyun recalled, "One time was in an old house in Nanyang. A little sister from a distant house came to my house with her elders and asked me to come downstairs to receive her. The other time was in Grasse alone. In the dormitory, it’s still the little sister who lives far away. She suddenly airborne Glass and pushed the door directly into my room, which scared my father to death. Fortunately, the blue screen happened. The last time is now.”

The phone rang and a text message came in.

Boss Xiao picked it up and looked at it for 2 minutes, then closed his eyes in pain: "It's still her."

Xiao Chongyun has changed many phone numbers, but every time, he texts the new number to Cheng Yuan.They have never been in touch, but they always hope that this little sister in Yashe will always have her own contact information.There are many bad people in society, what if one day she needs her own help?

Cheng Yuan sent a text message this time, as if she was the helpless child back then

"Brother Chongyun, I don't know where you are, and will you reply to my text messages. I received a promotional task from the company to imitate Guerlain's 'Melancholy' in 1906. But I can't do it."

A second text message came in right away.

It's Zhang Wenshan.

"Dear brother, little sister Yuan said she can't do 'melancholy', what should I do?"