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I'm amazed that that's what you choose to label as bad-faith given some of the posts in this thread from your friends, but for the sake of getting this back on track: bow accepted.I feel that this is a bad-faith misconstrual of my initial post, but will decline to explain further beyond noting my non-concurrence with your assessment. The juice ain't worth the squeeze.
I hereby bow out of the thread, having regretted participating in it.
The argument is there although at this point you have to look for it. It's contesting a fairly minor (not to mention trivial and obvious) point I made about Asia's role in the increased number of fragrances as part of my long post a few pages back in this thread. All of the bluster is intended to engulf and distract from the actual argument because there hasn't been a proper counter thesis yet (other than PStoller's dual exoticism i.e. east desires west & vice versa therefore loads of ouds). When someone comes up with something anywhere close to contradicting the summaries posted from Statista's analysis of Asian fragrance markets, then there's a discussion to have. But that's not going to happen (with the best will in the world, your misreading of "exotic" is irrelevant to the legitimacy of Statista as a source of market data).So I am not arguing anything. I don’t care about "winning" or the rhetoric, particularly when what people are arguing about and the data used is not well defined and changes. Particularly when, to be frank, none of you sound like you are making an argument, y’all sound like you are just trying to win an argument. As a someone who does not care and feels outside the whole thing, none of y’all are presenting good arguments or making anything clear (the data, what you are arguing, why it even matters).
I think most people reading have had a good eye-opener to some long-term dynamics of the forum.