Scented Trip, book/absolute

I first encountered the scent while travelling at the foothills of Kilimanjaro, a local I have met in the forest asked me to smell this head-sized hypnotic white flower, which led to a few moments of an ant-like horrid hallucinations in the middle of a rainforest.

What has stuck with me since that day was that some people were deliberately immersing themselves into that seemingly unpleasant experience.

However, diving deeper into the world of Brugmansia users, I have learned they are commonly reported by observers to act out hallucinations involving insects. The hallucinations might seem sinister at first glance, but once enough courage is gathered to go back to ”the underworld”, they become friendlier. It seems as if they were taming them with time – some even report to treat them as pets.

The droplet was extracted using enfleurage method, making Brugmansia absolute the main note in my perfume, made of something that was wearable but hypnotic, poisonous, narcotic in a very literal sense.