Barrister and Mann

Do you decide what you want to do and then scour the planet for surviving source material or do you scour the planet first and see what you come up with and decide whether to go with it or not?  I have a mental image of you in a pith helmet and with a large nose scouring the earth for that elusive scent which haunts your dreams.  Or maybe like American Pickers

It depends. Classic, Cool, Spice, Fern, and Lavender have all been specific fragrances that I felt that it was important to capture. Leather, if it should ever be completed (it may not be possible to save that one), is also a fragrance that I very much wanted to preserve.

But, going forward, I'm working from types of fragrances that I want to save, rather than individual scents. For instance, I've been looking for a citrus for quite some time and have not found something that I really liked. If Maurer & Wirtz ever discontinues Irisch Moos, that one will become "Moss" (already have the research stock ready to go). I'd love to do a vetiver and a bay rum (and actually have a bay rum fragrance ready to go, should there be sufficient interest down the road), but haven't been able to find a discontinued vetiver that I really feel ought to be saved. So yeah, now it's down to families rather than individual fragrances.

Pretty cool project, one that will last as long as you want it to.  Is there a Holy Grail fragrance that you're looking for?

There is, but it's horrifically expensive and likely beyond saving: The legendary Jean Patou Pour Homme Privé (note that the packaging shown is incorrect, but the description is quite accurate). I have a sample vial of it, and even found a bottle awhile back, but it was well over a grand and it would have felt a lot like burning the Mona Lisa to preserve the ashes (the fragrance stocks do not survive the analytical extraction process).

I'm limiting myself to one or two more soap purchases this year, and from these reviews, it's looking more and more like one of them has to be reserve.  Also, it would complete my B&M collection -- I have one tub each of White Label, Black Label, Glissant, and Latha.  Now I just have to decide between lavender and spice...

No Fern for you, huh?

It depends. Classic, Cool, Spice, Fern, and Lavender have all been specific fragrances that I felt that it was important to capture. Leather, if it should ever be completed (it may not be possible to save that one), is also a fragrance that I very much wanted to preserve.

But, going forward, I'm working from types of fragrances that I want to save, rather than individual scents. For instance, I've been looking for a citrus for quite some time and have not found something that I really liked. If Maurer & Wirtz ever discontinues Irisch Moos, that one will become "Moss" (already have the research stock ready to go). I'd love to do a vetiver and a bay rum (and actually have a bay rum fragrance ready to go, should there be sufficient interest down the road), but haven't been able to find a discontinued vetiver that I really feel ought to be saved. So yeah, now it's down to families rather than individual fragrances.

Pretty cool project, one that will last as long as you want it to.  Is there a Holy Grail fragrance that you're looking for?

There is, but it's horrifically expensive and likely beyond saving: The legendary Jean Patou Pour Homme Privà (note that the packaging shown is incorrect, but the description is quite accurate). I have a sample vial of it, and even found a bottle awhile back, but it was well over a grand and it would have felt a lot like burning the Mona Lisa to preserve the ashes (the fragrance stocks do not survive the analytical extraction process).

I'm limiting myself to one or two more soap purchases this year, and from these reviews, it's looking more and more like one of them has to be reserve.  Also, it would complete my B&M collection -- I have one tub each of White Label, Black Label, Glissant, and Latha.  Now I just have to decide between lavender and spice...

No Fern for you, huh?

Oops...I must have missed that. ;-P

Pretty cool project, one that will last as long as you want it to.  Is there a Holy Grail fragrance that you're looking for?

There is, but it's horrifically expensive and likely beyond saving: The legendary Jean Patou Pour Homme Privà (note that the packaging shown is incorrect, but the description is quite accurate). I have a sample vial of it, and even found a bottle awhile back, but it was well over a grand and it would have felt a lot like burning the Mona Lisa to preserve the ashes (the fragrance stocks do not survive the analytical extraction process).

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That sounds like a great fragrance. How much sample do you need to conduct the analytical extraction process? Lets say you were able to actually find enough and produce a BR - what would you call it?

As part of the brand shining I'm hoping that the ever popular Bay Rum soap will appear in glissant and new packaging.  I'm really hoping.

Pretty cool project, one that will last as long as you want it to.  Is there a Holy Grail fragrance that you're looking for?

There is, but it's horrifically expensive and likely beyond saving: The legendary Jean Patou Pour Homme Privé (note that the packaging shown is incorrect, but the description is quite accurate). I have a sample vial of it, and even found a bottle awhile back, but it was well over a grand and it would have felt a lot like burning the Mona Lisa to preserve the ashes (the fragrance stocks do not survive the analytical extraction process).

That sounds like a great fragrance.  How much sample do you need to conduct the analytical extraction process?  Lets say you were able to actually find enough and produce a BR - what would you call it?
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At least an ounce, preferably two. And I honestly have no idea; never really got far enough to figure that out.

All of the Reserve fragrances are derived from surviving stock of their source material. I waited a LONG time for Fern.

Do you decide what you want to do and then scour the planet for surviving source material or do you scour the planet first and see what you come up with and decide whether to go with it or not?  I have a mental image of you in a pith helmet and with a large nose scouring the earth for that elusive scent which haunts your dreams.  Or maybe like American Pickers

It depends. Classic, Cool, Spice, Fern, and Lavender have all been specific fragrances that I felt that it was important to capture. Leather, if it should ever be completed (it may not be possible to save that one), is also a fragrance that I very much wanted to preserve.

But, going forward, I'm working from types of fragrances that I want to save, rather than individual scents. For instance, I've been looking for a citrus for quite some time and have not found something that I really liked. If Maurer & Wirtz ever discontinues Irisch Moos, that one will become "Moss" (already have the research stock ready to go). I'd love to do a vetiver and a bay rum (and actually have a bay rum fragrance ready to go, should there be sufficient interest down the road), but haven't been able to find a discontinued vetiver that I really feel ought to be saved. So yeah, now it's down to families rather than individual fragrances.

old school givenchy vetyver is straight up magic.

The vintage Guerlain Vetiver is pretty special too. The new one has lost the gasoline vibe of the original.

Apologies to Will if he's already posted on this, but do we know when Lavender and Fern are coming out?

Apologies to Will if he's already posted on this, but do we know when Lavender and Fern are coming out?

September.

I snagged my trio of missing aftershaves (Bay Rum, Cheshire and Seville)! Oh yeah. This has been a LONG time coming, brother Will. Looking forward to the glissant soaps to match (Cheshire and Bay Rum).

Got a matching Cheshire! Its my top 5 soap. Love the scent and performance as is, I can only imagine it will be even better when it goes glissant!