The story begins somewhere across the Sea of Japan (\u042f\u043f\u043e\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u043c\u043e\u0440\u0435).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why this title? What is it about?
That part remains a secret\u2014for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to post this simply because it has been a while since I last worked on a fragrance entirely from scratch. This one began almost a decade ago, as many of my ideas do, with a name. I often find that a name comes first, carrying its own gravity, quietly insisting on taking form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the name existed, I started searching for an image\u2014something to move the idea forward. Not immediately, not deliberately. And then one day\u2014perhaps a year or two later\u2014I came across a striking photograph taken somewhere near Vladivostok. I had typed the name into a search box, looking for visual material, and there it was. The image lodged itself in my mind, as firmly as the name had. Neither let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Years passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By chance, I later found myself interviewing someone in Vladivostok for a post that never came to be. In that moment, the idea of turning that name into a fragrance suddenly felt real\u2014possible, even inevitable. But this was 2019. Life intervened. Other projects took precedence. The pandemic arrived. And slowly, almost without noticing, the idea slipped into the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As these things often do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life, however, has a way of circling back. Through an unexpected coincidence, I recently reconnected with the very person I once believed would help shape the soul of this fragrance. Not long after, that person sent me two photographs<\/strong>\u2014taken in a place far from Vladivostok, and far from where I now live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It may have been random. Enough to begin again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The story begins somewhere across the Sea of Japan (???????? ????).<\/p>\n Why this title? What is it about?
But it was convincing enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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