Oriental

Benzoin smells like sweetened vanilla cream kissed with caramel and a whisper of incense smoke. Imagine walking into a bakery where warm pastries have just emerged from the oven, then stepping into a Buddhist temple where resin smoulders on hot coals. It's honeyed and slightly powdery, with an almost medicinal undertone—like comforting cough sweets wrapped in silk. There's a subtle almond note too, creamy rather than sharp. It's deeply gourmand yet spiritual, simultaneously cosy and exotic.

Smoky & Earthy

"Rot" smells like the warm, earthy decomposition you'd encounter in a forest floor after rainfall—think damp wood, mushrooms, and that peculiar mustiness of old leaves breaking down. It's not unpleasant; rather, it evokes the rich, slightly sweet funk of aged soil and organic matter in slow transformation. Imagine pressing your nose into a rotting log covered in moss, or the smell inside an ancient wooden barn where hay has fermented for years. There's a leathery, almost animalic quality beneath the earthiness—faintly smoky, deeply grounded, with hints of tobacco leaf and dried peat.