Chinese Tobacco 19-69 2017

Silently, the veils of mist creep around the steep rock faces of Mount Emei. The forest lies silently beneath clouds, the air is ginger and cool coriander, the sun still a pale bergamot in the dense haze.
And under the swaying roofs of the rock temple, black tobacco floats in the finest threads, the tar whispers calligraphic images with fleeting gentle strokes on white walls of world escape and vanilla.
Delicately, the breath of sacred resins also smokes in the wooden bowl, the moist grasses further down in the valley, the blue-gray strokes of the pencil sketch of a delicately branched cedar. After a few hours, the images disappear, everything becomes white and silent and empty, as if the deepest moment of metaphysical meditation has arrived.
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"Chinese Tobacco" is a quiet, intimate scent, an inner emigration into a green cool mountain world with a simultaneous retreat into cozy spicy smoke and a warming hint of vanilla.

(With thanks to Bloodxclat)