3x3 Blind Sniff Round 3 'The Good Girl, The Bad Girl & The Robot Girl' - Page 3

No violet, honeysuckle, vetiver or orange blossom in the pyramid of notes for C. There is a very important floral that is the center of C - that is yet unnamed.

Haunani's many suggestions / guesses are going in the right direction ladies...follow her lead (although some of her notes are wrong).

It's not PR, TWolf.

No those suggestions debbborra - but yes, the floral I'm speaking of is tropical.

debbborra, you named one floral note in your last guess, that is in the middle notes - BUT it is not the floral note that comprises the central theme IMO of C. That's still not been mentioned.

Sunnyfunny has named it

If you ladies are still guessing by this evening, I will point out a clue buried in the story.

In the meantime, I might be off line for a bit.

And we have a WINNER - debbborra has correctly named the contents of C as, Dazzling Silver by Estee Lauder!



Notes (from the Estee Lauder site) are: monet lily, wild lotus, Japanese mountain orchid, rare purple vanilla orchid, Sunset orchid, passion flower and rose, magnolia and ginger lily. The nose behind this fragrance is Evelyn Lauder, daughter of Estee Lauder (which we hinted at in the story above).

Lauder came out with Dazzling Gold and Dazzling Silver in 1998 - the year that many of the perfume houses took a lot of risks and pushed the envelope on edgier, more modern takes on scents (Feu d' Issey by Issey Miyake and Black by Bulgari to name a few...).

The first time I smelled DS, it really did smell like a metallic floral. I think bront82 (who I never see on BN anymore) described DS best when he said, '...The icy floral arrangement was almost funereal, obsessively clean and utterly proper. It smells like a bundle of lilies got dumped in a sink and are being scrubbed under cold water with a new soapy scouring pad. Try as I might, I didn't hate it ... I just kept smelling it. It reminded me of this extremely upright and virginal girl I used to go to school with. I can imagine her wearing it with shorts and a sweater tied around her shoulders. To be fair, this is probably the opposite of my kind of scent, but I have respect for it...'

Of course I assume the metallic vibe is arrived at using the lily at the top and bottom notes - but it is those exotic orchid notes compromising the top and middle notes that really weird out ones nose when smelling DS. They're so strange and of course smelling them blind conjures up all kinds of notes and accords (like the salt and Calone guesses) - so it didn't surprise me that you ladies took the longest to solve this one.

I smelled the EdT when I first tested DS, but I was able to get the parfum version of DS - which is what you ladies sampled. It is less metallic (if you can believe it) than the EdT. I was afraid you might not get the metallic accord, since the parfum is so floral, so I had SMM put that part in the story.

Here's the conclusion to this story...I'll post a concluding post-script after this post before we officially end Round 3.

We were questioning what seemed like the hundredth white-coated scientist. Getting information out of them was like reading the phone book but slowly and surely we were making progress. Just like a dentist doing a root canal, and we were also finding that there was a rot at the center of Auto Scents. Everyone had confirmed that only Dr. Sterling had access to MISS and it was only his badge that allowed for entry into the lab that contained The Robot Girl. All roads were leading back to Dr. Sterling.
The Triple Play had finished with the sample we sent over and identified it as the Parfum version of Dazzling Silver by Estee Lauder. Lt. Perez was right he had smelled it before and we had now caught Dr. Sterling in a lie. It was time to go visit the good doctor and finish the root canal.
We arrived at Dr. Sterling’s house and he greeted us in a dark purple bathrobe while still drying his hair.
“Ahhh detectives, have you made any progress? I need to inform our investors about the tragedy and I’d like to be able to tell them something.”
Lt. Perez asked, “Our forensics team has identified that scent you pump into the air as a commercially bought scent and not a proprietary scent as you claimed when we met this morning.”
While talking Lt. Perez was waving behind his back toward a large armoire.
As I started to move towards it Dr. Sterling was looking at me but replying to Lt. Perez’s question, “Every business has a little fiction behind it detective its important for the employees to think what they’re doing is……Detective what are you doing?”
The last was right at me.
Lt. Perez handed Dr. Sterling a piece of paper and said, “Detective Metro Man is carrying out the search warrant you’ve just been served with.”
With those words I opened the armoire and found a huge flacon of Dazzling Silver and right next to it a rectangular circuitboard. MISS’ missing module, I presume.
Lt. Perez took out his cuffs and began, “Dr. Stephane Sterling you are under arrest for grand theft, You have the right to remain silent….”

After we dropped Dr. Sterling off at central booking Lt. Perez asked me if I’d like something to eat since it was my last day with his squad. I was hungry and I had unexpectedly enjoyed my time with the very different, than me, Lt. Perez.
As we were finishing our coffee Lt. Perez said, “I have to say that when Capt. Osborne assigned you to me for this month I wasn’t pleased. I’d read your file and your past and reputation are, to put it mildly, colorful. After working with you for the last month you’re a much better cop than that file makes you out to be.”
I have to say that coming from Lt. Perez that was high praise and made me feel pretty good.
I shook my head and told him, “Thank you very much but if you’ve read my file you know that the situation in Candy Town is due in large part to my actions and it’s my responsibility to clean it up. Until GM and Mary Jane have joined Dr. Sterling behind bars my job down there isn’t complete.”
I could see the look in Lt. Perez’s eyes that thought I was making a mistake but he said, “I understand and I hope that you know if you need my help you can call me.”
I said, “Thanks that means a lot to me.”
We shook hands outside the restaurant and went our separate ways. Lt. Perez back to his world and me back to Candy Town; with a sample of Andy Tauer’s Orris the Lieutenant gave me which I can’t wait to wear.

Thank you to TWolf and Lady_in_Black for a lot of behind-the-scene help coordinating this Round 3.

BIG THUMBS UP to my three participants - you girls really dove in there and even though you weren't prepared for all of the distracting stories and clue hunting, it all clicked together.

A high-five salute to the wonderful, creative and fun Somerville Metro Man for the stories - it would not have been as fun without your input. ((bowing gracefully))

Now, shall we pass the torch to Asha, for Round 4 - in June with the victims...I mean participants: Wordbird, Twolf and exquisitely me?

Yay!