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Coffee
Chestnut
Lime
Heart Notes 
Jasmine
Dry woods
Sandalwood
Base Notes 
Caramel
Amber
Vanilla
Musk05/07/2025
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Kappa soup
India? Nope. Japan! A ghost story... Put on your life jackets, please.
In the khaki sultriness of the hazy late afternoon, water drips slowly, lasciviously, from the leafy crowns of the ancient, nameless trees on the shore. The kappa are cultivated, they clear the pond so that it doesn't stink a bit. Decades ago, they recreated the musty scent of their habitat in the large laboratory in the Yôkai capital in an almost lifelike way. This enabled them to develop a room, er, pond scent that perfumes their lakes this year without them really smelling like foul sludge - old kappa from 900 years ago would have turned up their noses at this.
And scolded badly!
A couple of young ghost hunters camped on the shore. Well, real ones. The kind with special cameras instead of traps like in the stupid movie. One of them swears he can smell the water spirits.
Unimpressed by the roar and howl of the kappa, which reaches the surface as a clear gurgle, we make a coffee, it burns a little, maybe we should have stirred in the sugar afterwards, but never mind, the main thing is that we are cool enough to take a coffee break on the banks of a kappa pond. What else smells umami?
It's not just the coffee pot hanging on the light metal double-sided barbecue from the trendy outdoor store, but also cream of leek soup, seasoned with creamy fats and, er, herbs. Here we go! The one with the trendy jasmine perfume unpacks caramel toffees to entice us. The expensive ones with the chestnut cream. Smartphones are lifted, digital cameras adjusted. Bubbles rise. The first kappa down there widens its nostrils -
In the khaki sultriness of the hazy late afternoon, water drips slowly, lasciviously, from the leafy crowns of the ancient, nameless trees on the shore. The kappa are cultivated, they clear the pond so that it doesn't stink a bit. Decades ago, they recreated the musty scent of their habitat in the large laboratory in the Yôkai capital in an almost lifelike way. This enabled them to develop a room, er, pond scent that perfumes their lakes this year without them really smelling like foul sludge - old kappa from 900 years ago would have turned up their noses at this.
And scolded badly!
A couple of young ghost hunters camped on the shore. Well, real ones. The kind with special cameras instead of traps like in the stupid movie. One of them swears he can smell the water spirits.
Unimpressed by the roar and howl of the kappa, which reaches the surface as a clear gurgle, we make a coffee, it burns a little, maybe we should have stirred in the sugar afterwards, but never mind, the main thing is that we are cool enough to take a coffee break on the banks of a kappa pond. What else smells umami?
It's not just the coffee pot hanging on the light metal double-sided barbecue from the trendy outdoor store, but also cream of leek soup, seasoned with creamy fats and, er, herbs. Here we go! The one with the trendy jasmine perfume unpacks caramel toffees to entice us. The expensive ones with the chestnut cream. Smartphones are lifted, digital cameras adjusted. Bubbles rise. The first kappa down there widens its nostrils -
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