The most effective way to have someone concede is to shut them up with one’s capabilities.
A perfumer of the Powell Group was renowned in the perfume industry. Each one of them was well respected in Sliwell City.
They had examined Diana’s perfume and although it was still incomplete at that time, they were all astonished by the quality of the perfume. The reasons why they accepted Diana’s challenge were some of them wanted to see her skills of concocting the perfume while others were simply envious of her.
Today, Diana simply put on light makeup and focused on the task at hand. Those who saw her were surprised as she was unlike her usual self.
Diana had several vials of fragrance concentrates. She did not mind that the opponent used completed products for the challenge. She knew that she could do a new mix on the spot.
Numerous people gathered at the door to witness the challenge by the lady who caused so many rumors about her abilities. Some were there for the drama while others were there to see her true abilities.
“Ms. Miller.” The Assistant supervisor of the Perfume department Ms. Finger hastily placed her perfume on the table and challenged, “How do you intend to compete? If you dare to mix the perfume on the spot, then I’ll do the same and we’ll compare the results!”
Diana smiled and then gestured, “Please.”
The organizers of the competition started to take out the fragrance concentrates from storage and placed a widespread of them in front of her.
Diana was not flustered and confidently presented the list of concentrates that she required to the staff. They were stunned to see that all she required were seven concentrates! In the process of concocting the perfume, the more ingredients one uses the more complex and chances for error there would be.
Stella had about a hundred-odd fragrance concentrates placed in front of her while Ms. Miller only required seven! When the staff brought over the fragrance concentrates that Diana required, the other onlookers were shocked and started to mumble.
“What is Anna doing? She only asked for seven concentrates while Stella has that huge spread!”
“Does she intend to throw the challenge?”
Diana appeared to disregard the doubts and comments and simply grinned confidently. All she needed were these seven fragrance concentrates.
Stella looked momentarily at Diana and paused when she saw Diana grinning.
How can that woman be smiling at this moment? What kind of perfume can she concoct with just seven fragrance concentrates? She definitely could not come up with one that was as fragrant as Stella could.
Stella started to mix the concentrates. She had intended to reserve this recipe for the Sliwell City Perfume competition and it was a pity that she decided to use it for this challenge. But if she could win over this woman once and for all, then she would become the top perfumer of the Powell Group.
Then, before Stella knew it, Diana started to tidy up the apparatus in front of her.
“Is Anna done?”
“But it was hardly half an hour!”
“It shouldn’t take long since she only had so few concentrates to use.”
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