Sweet on Zhang Heng

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He's so dreamy! The picture of Zhang Heng for this scent is taken from the Chinese stamp issued to honor him in 1955, but we added the rosy blush.

Here's his deal: he was good at everything. ZOMG HQ is in a seismically-active area, so we're especially keen on the fact that Mr. Zhang invented the seismometer in 132 AD. Hot stuff. Of course he was also a gifted mathematician, civil engineer, cartographer, sculptor, and poet — who isn't? Translations of some of his poems read a bit like the gentler, more cheerful bits of Walt Whitman. Dig:

Then comes young spring, in a fine month,
When the wind is mild and the air clear.
Plains and swamps are overgrown with verdure
And the hundred grasses become rank and thick.
The kingly osprey flaps its wings;
The orioles wail mournfully-
Their necks entwined, fluttering,
They call to each other in tender notes.
Thus happily I roam and play,
My feelings to cherish:
I am like a dragon chanting on the moor
Or a tiger roaring in the mountain.

We love this guy's style, and we're also seized with an odd nostalgia for his time. The total sum of human knowledge was considerably smaller than it is today, and he was out on the cutting edge of several parts of it at once. That's...a lot harder to do now. We're jealous, but we also know how awesome it is that people like him got there and took care of business ages before we even had the chance. We've made him up into a super high-class confection, based on the bones of an old Chinese recipe. Not as old as him, but close. Tangerine, pine, jasmine, star anise, patchouli, and black tea leaves.

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