It is of course hard to guess why she laughed, maybe you were another one in a long list of people trying to guess the contents. However, I have a problem understanding, apart from a trend towards mystique, why it should be so difficult to guess the contents. It is one thing if there was a good product and now there isn't, but the crucial question is what was so special about it that is not present anymore in any other similarly constructed developer or in any modern developer, for that matter. I am starting a new thread "organoleptic properties of Harvey's 777 type developers", because my other one, about ripening, though informative, is getting me nowhere.