The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 18 Rose Water and Old Enmity
"What are you kidding!"

After Han Rui left, Ji Bingyun suddenly appeared, stared at Gan Tiantian uncharacteristically and roared angrily.

"I have spent five years researching... How can you, a yellow-haired girl who doesn't even know how to identify spices, know how the people of Dashi country refine rose water?"

"Then do you know how to make ice?"

Gan Tiantian didn't care about the beautiful dead ghost jumping in front of him, and replied coolly: "Maybe you 'used' to be a famous perfumer and knew everything about spices, but..."

"I know much more than you know!"

It is not without reason that Gan Tiantian is so confident.

Because in the communication with this person and one ghost just now, she realized that the so-called "Rose Water of the Great Food Kingdom" should be the embryonic form of the western perfume she came into contact with in later generations.

Although she only used perfume in her previous life, she had never visited a perfume factory or learned about this industry, but she happened to have watched the famous movie "Perfume".

And the way the hero used distillation and extraction to extract flower perfume left a deep impression on her.

She still remembers the principle of distillation very clearly - thanks again to her strict but kind chemistry teacher!

The next day, Fang Shaobai's personal book boy Qinshu came to Fang's house again, and handed Gan Tiantian a small wooden box.

Inside is the authentic Dashiguo rose water that Gan Tiantian asked Han Rui for.

She didn't see the original, so she still felt a little guilty.Waiting to open the box, take out the delicate little glass bottle and open the lid, and smell the rich fragrance of roses... Gan Tiantian's heart finally fell to the ground.

That's right, it was the rose perfume in her imagination!
"Well, it is indeed the rose water that the Great Food Kingdom paid tribute to."

Ji Bingyun actively participated in the appraisal, which made Gan Tiantian very surprised: "You have become a ghost, and you can still recognize the fragrance?"

"Correct."

"why!"

"I don't know." Ji Bingyun was always so cold about topics other than perfume, but fortunately Gan Tiantian was already used to his bad attitude.

Well, in short, Mr. Ji said authoritatively that this is the rose water of Dashiguo that the world flocks to, a fighter in the spice world-the latter sentence is Gan Tiantian's own inner complaint.

"Just wait and see."

Gan Tiantian rolled up his sleeves confidently, and began to draw the still diagram with the Four Treasures of the Study borrowed from his uncle.

Tan Yushu and Qiudong brothers all came to watch in confusion.Of course the two elder brothers couldn't understand what kind of talisman she was drawing. Tan Yushu looked at it silently for a while, and asked Gan Tiantian, "This is... a drawing for what kind of utensil to make?"

"Ah."

Gan Tiantian nodded, not wanting to explain further, just said, "It's a task entrusted to me by the old lady of the Gan family, she can't go into details."

Seeing the Fang family's book boy coming to hand over Gan Tiantian, the Gan family did not doubt Gan Tiantian's statement, but wondered what their little sister was doing for Mrs. Gan - where did she get the ability?
No way, Gan Tiantian can only push it to his deceased father, there is no way to prove it anyway!

She had a rough image of the still.But to draw something that really works, you need to keep exploring.

Ji Bingyun secretly observed the things she drew, and she kept thinking about them herself, but she never made a sound to mock her "nonsense".

As the No.1 of the former Ji family and the youngest great incense master in the Great Xiao, Ji Bingyun has a deep research on rose water.

Just as he said to Gan Tiantian, the fragrance of rose water has been introduced into China in previous generations.Not long after it was introduced, this new favorite quickly replaced the traditional Panxiangsu Heyou.

After the founding of the Great Xiao, Fan Kingdom paid tribute frequently, and the import of rose water became stable.As the popularity of Xiao people becoming more and more fragrant, the price of rose water is getting higher and higher.

The unique magical floral fragrance of rose water makes Xiao people very intoxicated, and it is used in many "Hexiang" fragrance recipes.

For example, there is a very fresh but expensive fragrance recipe, which is to soak various precious balsams and spices directly with rose water.

The "Xinhua Incense" that the famous courtesan Bo Chun burned for Fang Shaobai and Han Rui on Qixi Festival is made in this way and is worth thousands of gold.

However, the amount of tribute rose water is extremely limited after all, and generally only the rich and powerful can afford it.

If you want to use it in large quantities, you have to imitate it instead - most of the "Rose Water" sold in the Da Xiao Fragrance Shop today is imitated by perfumers.

The same imitation perfume, there is still a difference between superior and inferior. The fragrance recipes used by each perfumer are different, and the finished products must be very different.

Ji Bingyun has her own unique "flower soaking method".

First crush the agarwood crumbs, use fresh fragrant flowers such as tea, sweet-scented osmanthus, orange blossom, jasmine, etc., pick them with dew, and then put them in a porcelain box.Cover the porcelain box with a thin layer of bamboo paper, put it in a steamer and steam it thoroughly, take it out, remove the flowers to sweat, and soak the agarwood crumbs in the flower juice.Then expose the bowl of agarwood crumbs to dry in the hot sun, and repeat this several times until the agarwood is infiltrated.

Afterwards, grind the agarwood crumbs soaked in flower fragrance juice into powder, and then use it to blend the incense, the fragrance is rich and clear.

Ji Bingyun recalled a certain spring day after she became a great incense master.

That day, peaches and plums were in full bloom in the palace.Dressed in white like snow, with a smile on his lips, he walked into the Qingluan Hall holding a simple incense burner lit with flowers and incense, and met the Empress Dowager Sheng who was in power at that time.

The poisonous woman whom he called "sister" came out of the empress dowager's palace with a smile, and whispered to him in a slightly reproachful tone: "Bing Yun, you are here, I haven't seen my sister for so long..."

Hehe, sister.

His half-brother's eldest sister, Ji Jinfeng.

The woman who dragged him from the clouds to hell with one hand... 20 years have passed, is she still working in the palace?Was it already killed in a certain conspiracy struggle, or...

Stepping on the bones of countless people, ascended to a high position?

"Hiss...why is it a bit cold."

Gan Tiantian inexplicably felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the temperature around him suddenly dropped.Turning around, she saw Ji Bingyun, who was translucent, with thick eyebrows furrowed, wondering what she was thinking.

"Hey, I finished the drawing, come and see."

"Ok?"

Ji Bingyun recovered from the hatred-filled memories, and turned her attention to the blueprint in Gan Tiantian's hand.

Soon, he was deeply attracted.

"This...is the 'distiller' you mentioned?"

"That's right." Gan Tiantian smiled proudly: "With this set of copper utensils and glass bottles, you should be able to distill real rose water!"

It was Han Rui's third visit to Gan's house in the middle of the night, and he was already familiar with it.

Under the candlelight, he frowned and looked at the "weird" blueprint, muttering to himself: "This thing, can it really work?"

(End of this chapter)