The Long Afternoon

What it does over a day

Built around hay absolute, which is a difficult material to sell and an easy one to wear. The neroli is there to stop the opening reading as agricultural. It works for about seven hours and then the barn arrives.

The chart beside this paragraph is the same drawing as the rail at the edge of the page, at a larger size. Each line runs from the moment the blotter is dipped to the hour that material stops being legible, and stops there. Read left to right, it is the whole life of the fragrance on paper — and the gaps between the ends are where the thing you are wearing changes.

Panel readings are ORRISHAW's own, taken on 12 cm cellulose strips at 10% in perfumer's alcohol, in a room held at 20 °C. How we read a blotter.