Chapter 67 Making Perfume
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Hongxiu looked at his master happily and asked, "Hongxiu doesn't want to sell slaves." You must know that if there is no entry, even if all the slaves are sold out, the Qin Mansion will not be able to maintain it sooner or later."
"Really, Hongxiu, we do the perfume business. We will definitely make money and make a lot of money." Qin Mu hugged Hongxiu excitedly and walked around the place for a few times.
"Master, what is perfume?" Hongxiu, who was a little dizzy when the master turned his head, asked curiously.
"This..." Qin Mu didn't know how to explain himself, so he said, "You will know this later. Now you call Yingchun, Magnolia, and Xiao Cherry over. The master has important things to explain."
"Yes, Master."
Seeing that the master was happy, Hongxiu was also very happy and went out to arrange for someone to call Yingchun, Magnolia and Cherry over.
Looking at Hongxiu who was out, Qin Mu still couldn't help but be excited. He finally thought of a way to make a lot of money. Although Qin Mu didn't know much about the making of perfume, he had to make some simple perfumes. Qin Mu felt that he should have no problem. Even if it was a simple perfume, in this world, he was the only one who knew the making of perfume.
What does this mean? It means monopoly. Monopoly means making a lot of money. This is why those countries in modern society make so much money because it is monopoly. This thing is the one, and the price is up to you. If you want to use it, you have to buy it if you don’t buy it, and you can’t find a second store.
"You are here. You are the ones that the master trusts the most. Now the master has told you about some things. You must keep it confidential and not tell anyone, do you know?" Seeing that his favorite maids were all here, Qin Mu said.
"Yes, Master." Several maids said one after another, excited that they were the ones the master trusted the most.
"Magnolia, go out to buy some roses, and after returning home, pick all the petals and put them in the basin for the master. You can do this matter and don't let others know." Qin Mu explained to Magnolia.
"Master..." Yulan looked at Qin Mu with some embarrassment and said.
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?" Qin Mu looked at the maid Yulan in confusion and asked.
"Master, it's winter now, and the roses are not blooming yet." Magnolia whispered. The roses are blooming, and it will take several months to wait. Where can I pick them now?
"Oh, then let's have daffodils, at least one or two pounds of petals."
Qin Mu said that Qin Mu almost forgot that there were no greenhouses planted in this era, and there were no roses in winter.
"Yes." Magnolia took the silver out to find the petals of daffodils.
"Yingchun, go find some bowls and chopsticks." Qin Mu explained to Yingchun.
"Yes." Yingchun also went out to find bowls and chopsticks.
Soon Qin Mu arranged everyone's work.
Qin Mu, a previous life, studied perfume and knew that brewing a bottle of perfume requires a lot of petals. However, in this world, petals are not worth much at all, and the raw materials are very cheap.
To make perfume, you must first create fragrances, and naturally you must first extract the juice. It is best to extract the juice by extracting it with solvents. But under the simplified conditions in this world, only the pressing method and the distillation method are the most practical. The pressing method is troublesome and the petals are wasted, so Qin Mu chose to use the distillation method to extract the fragrance.
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After everything was ready, he found a remote and unoccupied room in the yard. After cleaning up a little, Qin Mu directed the four maids to work.
"Hongxiu, magnolia, please set up this pot. Yingchun, go find some firewood, and cherries, you are responsible for making the fire." Qin Mu commanded in an orderly manner.
Soon the pot was broken and half a pot of water was poured into it. Qin Mu asked Yingchun to find a sieve board and put it on the water surface to ensure that the water boiled and could not touch the sieve board. He then poured half of the water in the wooden basin found by the maid Yulan, hollowed out the bamboo tube, inserted one end into the hole in the pot, and connected the other end to the bottom of the water in the wooden basin.
After everything was done, grab the pebbles of daffodils and put them on the sieve board on the broken pot, block the lid of the pot, and let the cherries set fire.
Seeing the fire at the bottom of the pot burning more and more, Qin Mu felt proud. He had chased women in his previous life and bought some perfumes specifically. However, the method of making perfumes is to take a look at the spare ones. I didn't expect it to come in handy today.
This water vapor distillation method is simple and easy to use. As long as the flowers and water are heated all the time, the essence in the flowers is steamed out, mixed in the water vapor, and passes through the bamboo tube to the cold well water, the essence will automatically separate from the water and turn into essential oils.
However, the pot was breathing everywhere and the mouth was not sealed tightly. Qin Mu found a few more thin bamboo tubes and inserted them in them, leaving one for adding water, and the rest were passed into the water basin, and the fine seal was pasted with thin mud.
The first pot of distilled essential oil quickly floated on the water surface of the wooden basin. Qin Mu took it up with bamboo slices and smelled it. The fragrance was a little light, but he could still smell the smell of daffodils.
The room was filled with fragrance, bathed in the fragrance of daffodils, Qin Mu couldn't help laughing, he was about to make a fortune.
After excitement, Qin Mu carefully poured the daffodil essence into a porcelain bowl. Half an hour passed, and Qin Mu collected two large bowls of daffodil essence.
"Master, is this what you mean by perfume? It has a very special fragrance, a bit like rouge powder, but it is not. It smells much better than rouge powder." Hongxiu asked in confusion as he looked at the liquid in the bowl.
After all, Hongxiu came from the Xu Mansion. The ladies in the Xu Mansion often used good rouge powder. Hongxiu has smelled the good rouge powder, but has never smelled it. This smell seems to be specially brewed for women. It has a faint fragrance, thick but not strong, which makes people never tired of smelling it, and even a bit addictive.
"How do you think this tastes?"
Qin Mu smiled mysteriously and said, "In this world, this perfume was the first to invent. If there was a Nobel Prize in this world, should I send it to myself?" Qin Mu felt secretly satisfied.
"It's very fragrant, pure, and clean. I like it very much, but the taste is a bit strong." Hongxiu thought for a while and said.
"Haha, just be more intense. This is the essence. After being diluted with water and alcohol, the fragrance will not be so strong, and it will smell very comfortable at that time."
Qin Mu said with a smile, but after hearing what Hongxiu said, Qin Mu remembered a chapter I had read before, called "Smelling the Fragrance to Know Women".
The general idea is that a woman’s needs can be seen from the types of perfumes used by women. Women who like light fragrance pursue spiritual compassion, while women who like strong fragrance are women who have strong demands.
From this, it can be seen that Hongxiu is a woman who pursues spiritual compassion, and Qin Mu couldn't help but feel happy.
"Master, is this what you are talking about perfume?" Hongxiu asked again. After all, that "perfume" is related to the Qin family's plan to make money.
"Absolutely?"
Qin Mu said, after all, after all, the fragrance is made, it is easy to make perfume, just dilute it, and soon there will be perfume in this world. I don’t know how many women will thank themselves at that time.
"Master, it seems not as fragrant as before." Yingchun said.
Hongxiu also smelled it and said to Qin Mu: "Really, Master, the fragrance has been talked a lot."
Qin Mu couldn't help but pat his head, "Damn, why did you forget about such a final link?"
Although essential oil is the essence of the flower, after separation from the water, and then put it in a bowl to dry, the fragrance will naturally disappear. Moreover, his craft is rough and simple, and the essential oil he gets is less than one-fifth of the flower. If it is not sealed, it will be very little.
"Perfume bottle!"
Qin Mu patted his forehead and shouted, "Why did you forget this last thing? Without a perfume bottle, the fragrance you took out is so fragrant after weathering!"
"Master, what is a perfume bottle?" several maids asked curiously.
Qin Mu looked at their desire for knowledge and said the slender shape of the perfume bottle with his hands and feet, telling them how transparent and beautiful it is. But they are all from this era, and they have seen any perfume bottles, and they don’t even know what glass is!
Qin Mu had a headache, and there was a problem at the critical moment. Without a perfume bottle, all his efforts today were nothing! He walked back and forth and thought about countermeasures. When he was helpless, he almost fell down when he was tripped by something under his feet. He looked down and saw that it was a thin bamboo tube used for the discharge and transportation pipe.
Qin Mu couldn't help but be stunned, was lit, slapped his thigh and said, "Haha! I always have a way!" After that, he rushed into the forest, and quickly took a piece of bamboo pole as thick as a finger, made a small vessel, and then carved a plug. A primitive bamboo perfume bottle appeared in front of him.
As soon as this final difficulty was overcome, Qin Mu quickly arranged a few maids to continue extracting essential oils. After two hours of hard work, bamboo perfume bottles filled with daffodils essential oils placed in front of him. Looking at the pile of results, Qin Mu's joy of success arose.
"Master, can you give me a bottle of this perfume?"
Hongxiu looked at Qin Mu with anticipation and said, Hongxiu also liked the smell of this perfume very much. It would be great if it was rubbed on her body. It was fragrant, and the master would definitely like him more.
Although the other maids didn't say anything, Qin Mu's eyes betrayed their thoughts. They also wanted this perfume. For women, perfume has a fatal power.
"This is not possible for the time being. They are just fragrances, not perfumes."
Qin Mu said, but seeing the maid’s disappointment, Qin Mu said again: “After diluting them into perfume, I will give each of you a few bottles of perfume.”
"Really, thank you, sir." Several maids said happily.
"Hongxiu, you go to the study with the master. Is there something you can do to arrange for you?" Qin Mu said to Hongxiu.
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Chapter completed!