Kept forgetting to add-- it's possible that rather than being based on essential oils that'd been distilled from literal white plum blossoms, Tomoe's perfume might've been based on the traditional "white plum" solid incense which was actually made of a bunch of other stuff that combined to evoke the fragrance of plum blossoms anyway; there are probably ways to extract the aromatics out of the incense by steeping it in alcohol (sake etc.). Certainly a pure essential oil would've been too concentrated for her to directly apply to her skin, not just because the scent would be overwhelming but also because it would probably cause irritation and inflammation.
So yet again, this is a topic that eternally seems to go round and round without really settling anything :b
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on 2007-10-22 04:28 am (UTC)So yet again, this is a topic that eternally seems to go round and round without really settling anything :b