Wine Down Candle Lime and alive: galbanum crushed between

and alive: galbanum crushed between my fingers

It smells the way that first bite feels

I had not known how tightly I was strung until it began to loosen me

just as your shoulders finally relax

Where nature offers single notes

Wine Down Candle Lime and alive: galbanum crushed betweenNotes: Lavender, Chamomile, Sage, Rosemary, Camphor, Cedar, Sandalwood The first breath told me otherwise. It was clean and green and keen as a blade: camphor and rosemary, the sharp medicinal sting of them going straight to the back of the throat, the scent of every healing hand that has ever tended me after I had spent myself past all sense. Sage moved beneath it, dry and silver and old, the smell of leaves burned to cleanse a room of what has gone