New Jersey is home to many of the world’s perfume makers. Eric
Schlosser, in his Fast
Food Nation 2001, calls it the Flavor and Fragrance Corridor (referring to
the strip of I-95/NJTP that runs through the middle of the state and upon which are located many buildings critical to the global flavor and fragrance
industries.)
It’s no wonder that someone
would come up with the bright idea to steal a buttload of perfume from one of
these places. $30,000 worth, right in the trunk of his car.
So that’s what a trunk’s worth of perfume costs. But wait, let’s consider this – the ingredients themselves cost about 100 times less, which is 300 bucks. Which one is crazier: that you can get a year’s salary by filling a uhaul with stolen perfume, or that fragrance designer (under the guise of a brand name of course) can turn one dollar of oil into a one hundred dollar bottle of oil?
So that’s what a trunk’s worth of perfume costs. But wait, let’s consider this – the ingredients themselves cost about 100 times less, which is 300 bucks. Which one is crazier: that you can get a year’s salary by filling a uhaul with stolen perfume, or that fragrance designer (under the guise of a brand name of course) can turn one dollar of oil into a one hundred dollar bottle of oil?
Then again, Salvatore Dali was known for saying that all artists are
alchemists because they turn paint into gold. Those fake
Vermeers sure went for tens of thousands of dollars, and well, they weren’t
even “real” paintings.
Notes:
May 2016, NJ.com
2015, osmias.com
2012, networkaddress.blogspot.com
(about the Vermeer forgeries)
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