Chapter 230 - Tasteless

In a garden full of blooming flowers, a man sat on the balcony with his eyes slightly shut. After sometime, he picked up the perfume bottle on the glass table next to him and casually looked at it.

This was the perfume that made Tang Rou lose her mind?

Qi Heng casually took off the bottle cap and sprayed it in the air a few times.

A faint fragrance spread out.

The aroma molecules began to produce subtle changes bit by bit.

Qi Heng sniffed for a moment, and his originally casual expression changed slightly.

Then, he frowned, spritzed a little, and then closed his eyes once again.

When he opened his eyes, a few traces of doubt appeared in his eyes.

It had been a long time since he had touched perfume. It was not for any other reason, but because he had already achieved the highest accolade one could possible achieve.

Later, he began to research poisons, using perfume as a catalyst and a hallucinogen. After acting on the human body, it could cause changes in the subconscious.

He was the one who created the famous Sleeping Beauty.

Qi Heng had thought that there was no perfume in the world that he could not crack. Any perfume, as long as he smelled it, could be completely broken down, to its tiniest details.

He had thought that Green Bamboo was no different.

But he had a vague feeling that something was not right.

Qi Heng got up, went to storage, retrieved a few spices, and began the distillation process.

After the process was completed, he transferred the liquid in the test tube into the spray bottle, raised the spray bottle, and spritzed it in the air.

It was almost similar to the original.

However, in the end, it wasn't the one.

Qi Heng frowned.

How could this happen?

He dug deeper into Green Bamboo, and even sent the perfume into the analysis room for chemical analysis.

In the end, he found the reason.

Green Bamboo used a colorless, odorless plant as one of the material. Although it didn't have any smell, it would change the smell of the other spices mixed with it, allowing it to be purified and refined.

Tang Rou's fragrance-making skills could already be said to be at the pinnacle of perfection. However, because she didn't discover this special material, she began to doubt her own fragrance-making skills, and thus fell deeply into her inner demons.

Qi Heng had learned the ancient oriental fragrance-making techniques in his early years, so he knew that many plants didn't have any fragrance.

Originally, these plants didn't have the qualifications to become perfume ingredients, but some of them had certain medicinal effects and could be used as medicine. Later, he researched hallucinogenic drugs and had some understanding of these plants, that was why he had analyzed the ingredients of this plant in Green Bamboo.

This perfumer actually thought of using this colorless and odorless plant to make the fragrance. A true genius.

Was he trying to preserve the formula for the perfume, or was he trying to create a different perfume?

Qi Heng suddenly became interested in this person.

Once he knew which ingredients were lacking, things would be easier. After all, there were not many colorless, odorless, and non-toxic plants in this world.

However, Qi Heng compared hundreds of plants and found that none of them could perfectly fuse with the spices in Green Bamboo.

This meant that Green Bamboo utilized an unknown plant.

How was this possible? !

Qi Heng's expression changed. He had a vague feeling that the identity of the perfumer behind Green Bamboo was far from simple.

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"It's so annoying. After our perfume became popular, there were many pirated perfumes on the market, causing many consumers to be conned." Ah Bei sat on a wooden stool and complained as he crushed the spices.

Qin Yu was digging around the soil in the flower pot when she heard this. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. No matter how similar their perfumes are, there will still be obvious differences between them and my perfume."

This was because they would never have thought that there was a colorless and odorless fragrance element in her perfume.

Qin Yu reached out and touched the roots of the plant in the pot. Her eyes were a little dazed.

The plant in front of her was known as Fire Lotus. However, it was not a plant of the lotus genus. Instead, the flower that bloomed was a fiery red double petal flower. It looked very similar to a lotus flower, which was why it was named as such.

This plant was cultivated by her mother, Zhu Yi, and it was one of a kind in the world.

Ever since she was poisoned by Sleeping Beauty, Qin Yu remembered plenty of things.

After returning to Ning Chen's side, she deliberately didn't want to avoid those painful memories and choose to forget the experiences she had with her parents. Under the psychological stress, she slowly remembered many things.

In those vague memories, not only were there the figures of her parents, but there was also a plant that often appeared, and that was the Fire Lotus.

In the memories of Qin Yu when she was young, after her mother cultivated the Fire Lotus, she often used it as medicine and also used it to refine essential oils.

Zhu Yi did not learn how to make fragrance, but she was very sensitive to smells. At that time, situation was tense all around. Her father, Qin Sheng, was under too much pressure and could not fall asleep.. Zhu Yi learned how to make essential oils and mixed them with candles, soothing nerves in the family.