Without So Much as a Handoff (ROUND 1)
SCENT OF THE DAY: Mystical Lotus: Jiaozhi, by Ensar
Very Japanese in style like Moustafa from Yaaseen will do in his japanese series attars / deep woods (various ouds plus sandalwood and cedar) plus watery blue lotus (the star) contributes to an exotic meditative experience. fresh and aquatic (especially from cypress and lotus and ambergris), and yet fleshy and creamy from the sandalwood and frangipani. / orange blossom, mimosa, and rose add a soft indolic, pollen-like warmth that sits between the cold lotus and warm woods—and this helps with the fleshy sensation./ civet here gives it an amazing brightness, not too far from my benchmark unhinged bright sour civet (Blue Civet Dream by Pinoy Sirun), but here in the Ensar the brightness is restrained by incense./ Feels navy blue at first and then slides into a more pastel purple/ Nice tension between cold top and warm base / a very deep fragrance for an aquatic—cool sibling to Pink papua. / I will say though—although this might be more indicative of my plebian nose—that it is hard for me right now to see the big price difference between pink papua and mystical lotus
ensar t does not soak his agarwood, like the Japanese style. the lactic bacteria fermentation in soaking covers over the natural smell of the would, which is good to do especially if you are using low grade of like Prin
Without So Much as a Handoff
The bus driver's eyes, shifting to shorts your ass had outgrown, said he would ignore
the calls you knew you would make anyway— keep making (maybe this was another test)
even after he asked another boy, a thief too soft to touch a worm, “So we goin fishin?”
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
