Ella piped up, “Please return to your seats accordingly. Otherwise, I’ll show you the door.”
As the reporters thought about how important the press conference was, coupled with how fierce the ever-ready security guards looked, they did not dare to raise a ruckus and returned to their seats obediently.
However, a few of them continued to murmur among themselves.
When Rayna walked up the stage, the person in charge of Egret Scents, Marcelo, and the perfumer, Felipe Saunders, stood up immediately and shook her hand.
“Ms. Garland.”
Rayna smiled politely at them and said, “Thank you for making time to attend today’s event.”
“Please don’t mention it. It hasn’t been easy on us too,” Marcelo said. “Someone created an issue out of nothing and slandered us. Egret Scents was clearly the first company to launch the products. How on earth have we become the bad guy? We hope you can clarify the matter today, Ms. Garland.”
“Don’t worry.” Rayna smiled. “The reporters are here for one reason only, which is to reveal the truth as to why our perfume shares an identical scent as yours.”
Marcelo’s heart skipped a beat when he saw how confident Rayna was.
She must have discovered something, or else she wouldn’t have called for a press conference. I bet we’re going to get it rough today.
After sitting down, Marcelo asked Felipe discreetly, “Are you sure you were the one who formulated the perfume? You didn’t steal Glory’s idea?”
Felipe panicked, but he quickly kept calm and answered, “Yes, I formulated it myself.”
“Good.” Marcelo felt more assured upon hearing his reply. “Since we’re the first to launch the perfume, all we need to do is to insist that Glory plagiarized us.”
Felipe nodded. I’ve deleted the recipient records, so it’s impossible for Glory to have dirt on me. I’m sure the press conference is just a show.
Soon, Ella put the items requested by Rayna in front of her.
There were two bottles of perfume samples, several pieces of fragrance tester strips, and a document.
on the document, Rayna looked across the table
truth now, we
talking about?” Felipe chuckled. With both his arms folded across his chest, he side-eyed Rayna. “The truth is your company’s perfumer replicated my perfume, and you packaged
Saunders, aren’t you going to consider
our product. What do you think you’re doing? Are you forcing
stage focused on the
said was heard loud
Egret Scents launched the perfume
idea as Egret Scents’ perfumer, and they both produced the
“What are the odds?”
the leaves growing from the same tree are identical.
the others
conference room
opposite party was, she was determined not to
up a bottle of perfume sample and sprayed it
who created this bottle of perfume, I’m sure
and scoffed,
tester strip and tell us what are they,” said
glanced at her, wondering what trick she had
and
Felipe listed the
picked up another sample bottle
Ms. Garland? I created this
need you to sniff it one more
took the strip with
had a slightly different scent compared to the one
diffuses fast, and it gives out a very comforting scent. It smells like… the one I received from the delivery! It smells exactly
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