Kappa 河童

When we were selecting yokai and testing the initial Kirin drafts at Soi Sônn Klinn, someone piped up, "Let's do Kappa! Cucumber scent!" Everyone burst out laughing.

The catch is: Ohm absolutely hates cucumbers (like, if Hainanese chicken rice comes with a slice, it's getting picked out immediately). At the time, my mindset was normally to make scents I love, but for this round, I thought, "Fine, I'll make a scent I hate." So, if no one else was going to do it, I'd bloody well do it myself, haha. I threw a draft together that very night.

It was a fragrance where I made the draft that night (don't call it careful perfumery, call it spiteful perfumery, haha), evaluated it, and immediately finalized it because I was like: "I am never touching this again! It stinks so bad!"

When we put it out at the event, it turned out people liked it way more than the Kirin! In the end, I surrendered to public demand: "Fine, I'll sell it, haha."

The lesson learned from this fragrance: occasionally throwing yourself into unfamiliar or disliked territory is actually pretty fun. Even though I hate this perfume (due to the cucumber), it was a fun ride.