Scent Notes: Jasmine, osmanthus, fresh green wood, pine, hemlock, holy basil, cumin, trying to find your way out of a bog, and immortelle.

This was Day 1 in our Halloween Advent Calendar.

You are the protagonist in the movie. Sticks crunch under your leather soled boots as you walk through the dense woods. Somehow, the sky never seems to turn fully into day. You cross a stream and think you spot two little eyes peering at you deep in a shrub, but you don't dare stop to see who it might be. The ground gets a little softer under your feet as you go, at first just a little squish, then what you can only describe as "mushy." Finally, it's just plain wet. You can still see, but it's not totally clear what time of day it is. The trees around you smell nice, but the low heavy branches whack your face when you aren't looking and threaten to poke out your eye. Flowers poke through all of the green and offer a sweet note to the clutter of the dark forest. Then, out of nowhere, you emerge from the wood and break out into a rolling pasture with crows circling overhead and an ominous fog looming in the distance. On the horizon you spot a castle, little more than a stack of moss covered rubble. "She'd better be in there," you think, and trudge forward into your "destiny."