Seoul. Two senior editors at the same agency, each with a private life they would rather keep that way. The agency's biggest property has begun to migrate from page to screen, and the safe distance they rely on narrows one room at a time.
Seoul. A DevOps engineer at a tech conglomerate, exhausted past the point of articulation, makes a string of extravagant demands one drunken night. By morning, they are strangely being granted.
A treatise on scent and perfumery taken from first principles: the molecules involved, their physical and chemical properties, the physiology of olfaction, the cultural and psychological associations that condition perception, and the role of balance and negative space in composition. Where depth registers as beauty, and where it reads as decay.