1998 Demonstration Meeting
held on Thursday 10th December 1998 at the Churchgate Manor Hotel, Old Harlow, Essex

Round 1 - Round 2 - Round 3 - Round 4

There was a slightly different format this year; attendees selected a ticket with a table number, at which they had to sit. No more the warm, cosy feeling of comfort for perfumers relying on their favourite evaluators! With 16 fine fragrances, 4 products and 8 speciality compounds and essential oils, we all had to work very hard for our supper. A summary of comments follows.

Round 1 - Fine Fragrances
 

A1	Anisic, vanillic, patchouli, jasmin, strong Angel
A2	Very rosewood, sweet oriental, herbal on top, cashmeran L'Feu D'Issey
B1	'Old' smelling, mossy chypre, powdery, jasmin, ylang, woody Madame Rochas
B2	'Old' smelling, fruity, red fruits, bubble gum, spicy, floral, powdery, musky, galbanum, tuberose Beautiful
C1	Violetty, rose, powdery, musky, sweet, lily Eau Fraiche de Bulgari
C2	Oriental, spicy, amber, chocolatey (in an Angel Innocent way) patchouli, with a slight herbal note, minty, rosewood like Jungle Tiger
D1	Masculine, herbal, citrus, spicy, woody Coriolan
D2	Citrus, ambery (ambroxan), grapefruit, woody, herbal, lime Dune for Men

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Round 2 - Products
 

P1	Green floral fruity, nettle like, could have been a bodywash Thermasilk
P2	Very adoxal/vernaldehyde like, citrus, orange, tangerine, looked like WUL Virgin Vie Glee (was a mousse in its former life!)
P3	Very coconut, sweet, milky, honey Radox Milk and Honey
P4	Piney, aldehydic, herbal green, detergent powder Bold Alpine

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Round 3 - Speciality bases

Paul McGee had kindly retrieved some old speciality bases and essential oils. They were familiar to some, and never smelled by others. All very interesting, and very few were correctly named!
 

M1	Powdery, baby like, soapy, aldehydic, citrus on top, spicy, luxy Phenylal
M2	Prune like, sweet, damascone, woody, sandalwood, ionone, iralia, buttery Vetirysia
M3	Spicy, ginger, earthy, coumarin like, medicinal, piney, fir Marjoliane
M4	Minty, carvone, dirty, wormwood, dusty, witch-hazel, rubber, sassafras, camphoraceous, dank, leathery Calamus
M5	Piney, herbal, fir-like, woody, ambery Dogwood
M6	Green, galbanum, rhubarb, animalic Physalis
M7	Ethereal, medicinal, tonka, woody, resinous, cystambrol, liatrix, hay Sumatrix
M8	Rose base, slightly spicy, lilac, lily Coroliane

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Round 4 - Fine Fragrances

Unfortunately at this point, having run out of paper and almost time, with tummy rumbling, and worst of all not realising I would be doing the write up, no more odour descriptions were put to paper. For information the following fragrances were also smelled.
 

A3	Anais Anais
A4	Extreme D'Amarige
B3	Live Jazz
B4	What About Adam
C3	JPG
C4	Innocent
D3	Aromatics Elixir
D4	Lolita Lempika

The meeting was followed by a traditional Christmas dinner, complete with crackers and screaming balloons, much to the amusement of everyone. After the meal, a disco was held, for anyone not too stuffed full of turkey to move!

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