Faux Flora No. 1

In spite of its initial radiance, Faux Flora No. 1 opens with this cooling sensation that I appreciate, as if the ambient air is warm but a breeze comes through. This breeze carries the scent of something delicate and alluring, as if there are some distant and unusual plants that would have me on a search for their location. The scent is gauzy yet creamy, and there is a slight saltiness as if from a distant shore. As I search, I anticipate the petals on this plant to be pure white. I imagine finally finding the plants from which their odor originates, and it turns out the petals are transparent, much like skeleton flowers (Diphylleia grayi), the plant where the petals will look glass-like after a prolonged stretch of humidity. They are growing among Virginia cedar, and it turns out what I smelled from afar were both flowers and trees together: multiple flora. Over time, an Iso E Super and musk daze eclipses this and the dry down is abstract, yet comfortable.