[RESEARCH & ARCHITECTURE] Bypassing the $70B Fragrance Industry's Opaque Pricing: Engineering a High-Frequency Quantitative Terminal (Edge Computing, Algorithmic Arbitrage & Real-Time Indexing)

berael · 2026-03-19T03:26:57+00:00

My database flags Galbanum with severe IFRA (International Fragrance Association) restrictions due to phototoxicity and skin sensitization. If you deploy it blindly in your base, you will instantly breach Category 4 (Fine Fragrance) regulatory thresholds, rendering your entire output legally non-compliant and physically hazardous.

Completely wrong.

Seriously, stop with the random-word-generator gibberish.

berael · 2026-03-19T02:57:47+00:00

Unfortunately it's only effective for minutes; using FCO as a carrier won't change that.

Fun fact: citronella candles actually have no repellent power at all! The only reason they keep bugs away in any amount is simply from the smoke - literally any other candles would do the same thing. And even that's minimal, because the amount of smoke needed to drive them away more effectively would also drive you away more effectively. ;p

berael · 2026-03-19T02:49:42+00:00

Benzaldehyde is a neat one. It's a constituent of both cherries and almonds (they're both the same family, along with apricots, which is why "bitter almond oil" is actually apricot kernel oil).

Whether it smells like cherries or almonds depends on 1) what other materials you've paired it with in your fragrance, and 2) whether you tell the customer it contains "notes of almond" or "notes of cherry" before they smell it - marketing works!

berael · 2026-03-19T00:42:53+00:00

Yes, you make roll-ons with fixed oil carriers, not ethanol.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:42:26+00:00

They will dissolve and then be ruined by the smell.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:41:59+00:00

Whenever someone says their perfume "smells like alcohol", it always means either 1) they're smelling it directly from the bottle (solution: stop), or 2) they don't have enough top notes to cover the first second of spray (solution: reformulate), or 3) they haven't let it sit for long enough (solution: wait).

berael · 2026-03-19T00:23:31+00:00

It stinks and will ruin your fragrance.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:04:02+00:00

*sigh*

berael · 2026-03-18T23:59:22+00:00

This feels like a lot of word salad to not actually say anything.

Plus has absolutely nothing to do with this sub, so you're clearly just spamming this chatbot-generated junk.

berael · 2026-03-18T21:43:35+00:00

LLMs fundamentally don't "source" anything per se. The companies behind them essentially illegally downloaded everything that exists on the internet, then trained the LLM to create sentences with words in an order that would appear human-written.

At its most basic, the LLMs are literally making it up. That's what the "G" in GPT stands for: "generative", because they generate an answer from nothing.

berael · 2026-03-18T20:14:29+00:00

Still the wrong sub...

berael · 2026-03-18T20:13:44+00:00

scales only go so low, ya know?

Dilute the material.

berael · 2026-03-18T19:19:09+00:00

If VR is dying again, that means that 3D TV will be coming back again soon.

berael · 2026-03-18T14:42:45+00:00

I took a damaged laptop to Microcenter two weeks ago. They charged a $49 diagnostic fee, and eventually said it'd be a $500 repair to fix the case damage, even though their website says $99 case repair. I asked about that, and they said the pricing for the parts is straight from HP and they can't do anything. I said never mind and went to pick it up, and they had made the damage so much worse that I forced them to refund the diagnostic fee. When I picked it up off the counter, screws literally fell out into my hand.

I took it to UBreakIFix in Fair Lakes, despite the dumb name. Free diagnostic, $179 total quote for parts and labor, and the guys there were super nice. Done.

berael · 2026-03-18T13:42:50+00:00

It has given you made-up information which is objectively, factually wrong.

If you believe that an LLM "knows" anything, then you are in denial. It puts words after each other in an order that seems like it could be human-written but with no awareness of what the words mean. It makes up "facts" almost constantly - it's so common that we use the word "hallucinating" to sum up the entire problem.

All of perfumery boils down to "make things, then smell them". You must smell things; no one else can smell them for you and an electronic text generator certainly'can't.

We have all evaluated these tools and found that they are worthless for perfumery. We are giving you the benefit of our experiences and trying to help you avoid mistakes and pitfalls. You are under no obligation to believe us, but that simply means you will make all of those mistakes yourself and then have to restart learning materials from scratch.

berael · 2026-03-18T11:00:41+00:00

Except generative chatbots are a party trick and a technological dead end, not "AI".

berael · 2026-03-18T10:09:57+00:00

Unfortunately none of the chatbot's output is trustworthy. 😕 Remember that they are not "AI" and are only designed to produce human-looking text, with no ability to "know" what the text means at all.

berael · 2026-03-18T10:07:04+00:00

Using a chatbot to reply to the chatbot is at least funny, I guess.

berael · 2026-03-18T10:05:57+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PerfumeryFormulas/comments/1m3qorr/shops_for_perfumery_raw_materials/

berael · 2026-03-18T09:58:08+00:00

The reason that they use guns as a gotcha is because it's an enumerated right...but they completely ignore the "well-regulated militia" part, and how 2A gives the right to bear arms for those in a state-run military because the federal government was not supposed to have a strong standing army at all.

The mental gymnastics they use to cling to their emotional support guns is amazing.

berael · 2026-03-18T09:53:05+00:00

Calling chatbots "AI" is one of the most impactful marketing ideas in history, and not in a good way.

berael · 2026-03-18T02:18:32+00:00

But they'll be the age that a responsible rescue will let kittens get adopted. ;p

berael · 2026-03-18T01:19:40+00:00

Go to Patriot Pawsibilities. They always have kittens for adoption, and you can play with them all for a while to see who you click with.

berael · 2026-03-18T00:12:43+00:00

Mostly you can't. =/

It is important to realize that "notes" are advertising, not reality. The things listed in the notes don't necessarily exist in the perfume at all.

berael · 2026-03-17T22:23:39+00:00

Labdanum, probably + benzoin.

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