4160 Tuesdays Gourmand General Catalog Eau de Parfum (Available)
"Not long ago, when I was about to give it all up and turn to watercolours, or something else that isn't regulated to the point of strangulation by the EU, I was spending another evening attempting to come to grips with the multilevel database software I use to check that my scents are legal and produce all the paperwork. I said to Nick Randell (AKA Randello), 'Do you think I should just pack it in?'
He said, 'If you were going to give up, you'd have given up long before now,' so I kept going and, a couple of sessions later, I cracked it: legal labelling and a nice list of EU allergens for the three scents I was about to deliver to Les Senteurs. So I thought he deserved a scent. The Great Randello was a Welsh magician, probably related to Nick. In 2012, I went to one of Karen Gilbert's five-day courses, which was wonderful. I needed to work with more synthetic materials — just getting access to them is hard for little perfumers and this gave me a good crack at sniffing and using a load of things I'd heard of but not experienced. One of the scents I made there I called my Friday Afternoon Chypre, a dark, woody, mossy, fruity concoction, and I was pretty happy with it, but wanted to do a bit more work. I decided to adapt it for Nick, taking out the blackcurrant base I'd used (because I couldn't find out exactly what was in it) and adding a load of strawberry-toffee scent instead. The Great Randello turned out to be a deep dark chypre inside a sweetshop." Sarah McCartney
NOTES: Oakmoss, opoponax, patchouli, vetivert, clary sage, sandalwood, bergamot, synthetic musk, ambergris, raspberry leaf absolute, raspberry ketone, toffee, lemon myrtle, lavender, tangerine
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