Johana Keiko Mecheri 2012

This masterpiece! So interesting how it behaves differently on everyone. The development on my skin is amazing. First I get a bunch of Chrisantemen with a thread of dark rose and sprinkled with galban resin. This phase is the most difficult. It lasts about an hour and then becomes paler as a powdery iris takes over, but not alone. Like smoke rising from a ritual temple, I perceive incense with sandalwood. The long dry-down is warm, despite the cold impression this flower may make - yes, Chrisantemum comes back embraced by the incense, the scent lingers for hours, light and fine like a dark veil that I never want to let fall from my body.