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Chapter 532 Perfume Production Capacity is a Mystery

As the largest country in the Arab world in the 17th century.

The Ottoman Empire's power center was located in Anatolia.

However, its territory included most of the Arab world.

In the imperial court, the sultan and his concubines had the custom of using fragrant water instead of bathing.

Furthermore, the Quran and Hadith repeatedly mention that spices such as musk and camphor are "the breath of Paradise".

The Hadith encourages believers to remain pure and fragrant.

Their prophet said, "Perfume is a sign of good deeds!"

Using perfume is considered a sacred and noble act.

This way.

The demand for perfumes and spices in the Ottoman Empire's sphere of influence was considerable.

When Marcoli talks about perfume sales, he becomes incredibly energetic, his face glowing with excitement.

"Your Excellency Zhaoyi, thank you again for your generosity and kindness. The perfume that Marco brought back to Venice last year was extremely popular."

During this period, we had to cooperate with a giant who monopolized the European spice market, and in return, we had to make significant concessions.

Later, in order to fulfill your order, we partnered with the Barbary Pirates again.

This group acted too ruthlessly and was hunted down by the British navy, losing half of their men.

And they all blamed these losses on poor Marcoli. As a result, I, who should have made a fortune, ended up losing most of the money I earned from selling perfume.

But please rest assured, sir, Marcoli is not one to give up easily.

Thanks to my efforts in promoting the perfumes from the Kansai Trading Company, they have now gained recognition among courts and nobles in various countries.

I am willing to dedicate my life to headhunting and perfumery!

Do you think it possible to deduct five million taels of silver from this headhunting fee and use the entire amount as payment for the perfume?

Could you please hire another guard to escort us back to Venice? As for the escort fee, I'm willing to increase it to 1,500 taels of silver!

Gan Minglan: "."

A shady merchant is a shady merchant.

This headhunting fee is truly a huge sum.

They not only brought back warship designers, more than 600 shipwrights, various craftsmen, painters, mathematicians, astronomers, geographers, mechanical engineers, and so on, but also trafficked several hundred people.

Our main focus is on talent; we sell to anyone.

Why refuse something that's offered to you?!
At the very least, they can be used as foreign teachers.

Gan Minglan accepted it decisively.

The commission, once calculated, reached a terrifying amount.

Three million five hundred and thirty thousand taels of gold!

What is this concept?
The tax revenue collected by the previous dynasty's treasury was never this much in a single year!

This is just the shipping price for a single perfume order.

Marcoli dared to invest so heavily because he was optimistic about his partners and the entire European perfume market.

Gan Minglan pretended to be in a difficult position:
"This order is just too big. It not only takes up our overseas inventory, but also takes up orders from our major domestic customers."

In the past year or so, Fragrance House has added a unisex fragrance and a special fragrance suitable for religious activities to its existing categories of men's and women's fragrances. The four categories have now expanded to include sixty fragrance types.

There are twenty-five perfumes among these that need new distributors. If you place an order like this, where will the new distributors find stock to sell?

Hmm, she added ten more fragrances at the last minute.

It's not that I'm afraid of this unscrupulous merchant's greed, it's that I'm afraid of him

Sure enough, upon hearing her words, Marco became even more determined: "Your Excellency Zhaoyi, you promised last year that you could give Marco the right of first refusal! There's no need to find a new agent; Marco is the best agent for these perfumes!"

With his enormous commissions, he desperately wanted to hold all the European distribution rights for perfumes.

He knew that many of the businessmen who came this time were there for the perfume.

His plan was to wipe out all of the other party's production.

Give him everything—last year's, this year's, and preferably next year's.

If Marcoli is going to do something, he'll do it exclusively!
This applies to headhunting services.

The same applies to the perfume trade.

His understanding stems from his knowledge of the current perfume craftsmanship and production capacity in Europe.

Perfume making in Europe was mainly concentrated in family workshops or monasteries in places like Grasse and Venice.

It's small in scale and doesn't have many types of perfumes.

The mainstream fragrances are either rose or jasmine.

Flowers that bloom only once a year are produced in very limited quantities due to factors such as weather.

Using the most primitive distillation extraction method, one ton of rose petals can only yield a little over one pound of essential oil.

The annual production of rose essential oil (the main raw material for perfume) in all of Europe is only a few hundred kilograms.

Because he knew the production principles, Marcoli had a certain prediction of the production capacity of the Kansai perfume workshop.

Little did he know that the situation in Kansai was incomparable to that in Europe.

Perfume workshops in the Kansai region have more than twenty varieties of flowers that can be directly used to enhance fragrance, including osmanthus, jasmine, rose, gardenia, orchid, and wintersweet.

In addition, there are more than 30 kinds of medicinal and aromatic herbs, such as honeysuckle, mint, mugwort, and nard.

There are also some special non-floral materials that can be used directly to enhance fragrance.

For example, citrus fruits, agarwood, and camphor trees are also good raw materials.

With the addition of this max-level wood-type ability user, the growth of all plants is unaffected by the seasons.

Raw materials are readily available in any quantity, and their quality is consistently high.

Unlike the primitive distillation and extraction techniques of Europe, wood-based superpowers can preserve the purest essence of plants and flowers to the greatest extent.

The natural base fragrance (essential oil) is stable and pure, and each one has an addictive and long-lasting scent.

In addition, this person had a perfume collecting obsession in her previous life and had been obsessed with DIY perfume making for many years. Not to mention making sixty perfumes in a few years, if she wasn't afraid of scaring these people, she could make hundreds of them in a minute.

As for production capacity, we can handle as many orders as we need.

From a cost perspective, perfumes are far more profitable than glassware, mirrors, watches, and jewelry.

The perfume workshop in Kansai was located in the Zhenguo General's Mansion.

The level of secrecy is much higher than that of ordinary workshops. Even the head manager of the trading company doesn't know that since its establishment, this workshop has only had one employee and owner.

As we all know, perfume is derived from flowers.

Fresh flowers are delivered to the workshop all year round.

But what exactly is the purchase price of these flowers, how much are used, and how many kilograms of petals are needed to make a bottle of perfume?
—Who can know!
You want to find out some confidential information?

Are you out of your mind?!

Anyway, the perfumes currently being sold at the Kansai Trading Company are all priced at cost, whatever Gan Minglan quotes.

this year.

The autumn trade fair has not yet started.

A huge perfume order worth over 30 million taels of silver was placed in such a spectacular fashion.

The head of the Kansai tax office pinched his philtrum with both hands, afraid he would faint from laughter:
Good heavens, his performance this year is going to reach a new level.