What a shadow smells like at midday.

Some scents smell like words. And some like silence. The shadow under a cypress. Dry sage. A drop of water on a dusty stone. That's what this infusion has become, which I wear as a scent - not to sound, but to fall silent beautifully.

I make it in the summer. When the plants are especially frank. I collect some sage, laurel, thyme. I dry it not until it is crunchy, but until it is soft. And I infuse it with grape alcohol , adding immortelle hydrolate.

After two weeks, I strain it. It smells like a day when no one is in a hurry. Like an exhale after the heat. Like walls that can keep the cool.

It's not a perfume. It's a gesture. I put it on my wrists, my collarbones, my pillow - and it doesn't take me away, it brings me back.

Perfume infusion recipe

Ingredients:

• Sage (dry) - 1 tsp.

• Thyme (dried) - ½ tsp.

• Bay leaf - 1 pc.

• Immortelle hydrolate - 10 ml

• Grape alcohol (or pure ethanol 95%) - 30 ml

• (optional) cypress essential oil - 1 drop

How to cook:

1. Pour alcohol and hydrolate over the herbs in a glass bottle.

2. Keep in a dark place for 2 weeks, shaking daily.

3. Strain and store in glass.

4. Use as a light fragrance - on skin or fabric.

This is not a scent for going out. This is a scent for "coming home". When everything has already happened. When you are just walking through the yard and you understand - everything is already there.

The shadow has a smell too. It just speaks only to those who know how to listen.