midnight here,
we are a house of fragrance and care,
33° south
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santiago
31° north
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shanghai
子
méridien — 子午, in mandarin. 子 is midnight. 午 is noon. together they name the axis running from north to south through the earth.
we are two people in shanghai, building this house of fragrance and care looking back across that axis to santiago, where both of us are from. we use materials of both ends — chilean amber, sandalwood, and tonka. chinese osmanthus, oud, and sichuan pepper — used because they belong here,
not because they sound exotic.
午
the same trees grow in both of our cities, planted by the french, a century ago, in both places.
we're building this slowly.
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