Stoner
My parents smoked. When they did, they would light incense to cover it.
The house smelled like smoke trying to become something else.
It usually happened at night. The windows were closed. The air felt still.
There was always that first moment when the incense caught. Dry. Slightly sweet. Then the smoke would follow and settle into everything.
I did not think about it as anything specific at the time. It was just how the house smelled sometimes.
But it stayed. That contrast stayed.
Something burning. Something soft layered over it.
Years later, I kept coming back to that feeling. Not the idea of smoke, but what happens when you try to shift it. When you place something lighter over something dense and let them exist at the same time.
That is where Stoner begins.

Neroli opens it. Quiet. Slightly aromatic.
Palo santo settles in underneath. Resinous. Still. The kind of calm that fills a room without asking.
Then it dries down into leather and woodsmoke.
Warm. Close to the skin. It lingers.
Slow. Grounded. Not what you expect from the name.
Some scents are composed.
Others stay with you until you understand them.


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