I Dream

The windows are open in a sunlit kitchen where someone is slicing citrus over a wooden board. She leans forward and the air shifts. A bright spray of grapefruit and apple lands first, sharp and clean, with bergamot adding a thin, oily brightness that feels like cold water in the heat. The room smells awake. It is not a loud entrance, just a clear one, as if the morning itself decided to step inside and settle on her sleeves while she moves between the counter and the stove.

As she pauses to arrange a small vase of flowers, the sharper edges soften. Rose and jasmine rise together, the jasmine creamy and the rose dry, neither dominating. Cinnamon begins to warm the air around them, not heavy but present, curled into the vanilla that follows. Sandalwood sits underneath it all, smooth and pale, giving the flowers a wooden floor to stand on. The blend feels powdery in the way old lipstick does, familiar and a little nostalgic, with the fruit still humming quietly behind the petals.

A breeze moves through the room and carries the scent toward the open door, where the garden path waits in dappled light. The cinnamon and vanilla hold hands with the sandalwood, the citrus long since folded into the petals, and the air smells like a memory of a holiday morning that never quite ended, the kind you try to recreate by opening the same windows at the same hour, hoping the light falls exactly

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