Flora-zal accords - Ultra High Resolution

1. Jessamine: A rough cut of Jasmine made only from aroma molecules, no naturals. I disavow nature.Taken from a list of compounding notes for flower accords in Perfumery- Practice and Principles. by Robert R. Calkin & J. Stephan Jellinek using things like Benzyl Acetate, Phenylethyl acetate, Hydroxcitronellal, Linalool, Geraniol, Cis 3 hexenyl Acetate, Cinnamic alchohol, Hedione , Indole etc

Emerging out of a void and appearing 3 dimensionally, a Jasmine flower unfolded after only three of the aroma molecules where added. Then little by little the complexity ramped up.At one stage the whole thing losing its identity & becoming a chaotic mess and then coming back into focus again. Finally, added the Indole – it turned into something of a giant scary thing. A runaway Jasmine monster emerged.

3 days later, diluted in alcohol it had become tamer. Taking a few seconds to appear on heavy blotting paper. This, time-delayed apparition business, might be something to really try to take hold of. But how would you track that ? – with a lot of rigorous procedure involving spreadsheets and a gazillion tests I would imagine or as intuitive knowledge developed over a long period of time. Either way, with experience! There is a lifetime of distracting work in all of this.

The indole got onto everything and I don’t know how, I was being very careful.
The most miniscule amount of this material is all that is needed. I am using Indole 10 % in IPM and then I further diluted it again in PGE. When I came back to the house I was surrounded by a floral cloud and I had to shower to get rid of it.Twice ! You can see why the animalic, feacal materials are so useful.

What is interesting is the way the accord smells fine, delicate - high resolution even. This question of resolution is amazing. One can really see why synthetic molecules have been used for ever. There is this geometrical feel to the smell that is very hard to describe. It’s like there are intersecting planes of something within the smell, but they are not hard edged jagged shards of spiky solvent, these are smooth flat planes, like sheets of transparent - I don’t know what. You can sense the resolution of the molecules – its all daylight & clear, temperature? None!

What is high resolution Jasmine? If not a kind of Honeysuckle and that’s what this smells like after 4 days. J picked it immeadiately.

Victorian households forbade Honeysuckle because it was said to instill erotic dreams in teenage girls.In the early 18th century the Turkish "Secret Language of Flowers" was introduced to Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople. Flowers had long been a sign of romance but now lovers were able to send secret messages to each other by means of sending a posy of codified flowers.

Baudrillard in his essay "Subjective Discourse or The Non Functional System of Objects" meditates on marginal objects (primitive, exotic or quaint) making the point that “it no longer has any practical importance it exists solely to signify”

“A whole category of objects seem to fall outside the (functional) system we have just analyzed: rare, quaint, folkloric, exotic or antique objects. They seem inconsistent with the calculas of functional demands in conforming to a different order of longing: testimony, remembrance, nostalgia, escapism. One might be tempted to see them as relics of the traditional and symbolic order. Yet, for all their difference, these objects form part of modernity and this is the source of their double meaning. “ …amazingly he claims “ We already saw that the cigarette lighter was mythological to the sea” and that to me folks is one corkscrew of a leap in signification.

2. to follow and so on....
Starting point for a second version of this accord.

yellow ring of the the sun washes over the top of me - I am underwater. A purple after image, all limbs stretched out; total saturation at the limit of seeing, at the limit of thought, at the limit of matter, infinite star you are a magnet.