First Touch

The pallor of adulthood evaporates. What is left is a white world of innocence and tenderness. The birth of a daughter set Tianle Feng looking at the world afresh. Childhood cannot be lived twice, but through a child's eyes the world can be read with goodwill again. Yuzu stands for the child, bittersweet, lovely and unique. Native to the Yangtze River valley, it reached Japan by way of the Korean Peninsula in the Nara period, and it belongs more to the kitchen than to the bottle. Milk and honey sit with musk, warm and sweet, like the natural smell of a small child. Watermelon comes in fresh and lively beside the yuzu. Lily of the valley and begonia are clean and airy, with lilac next to them. Haitian vetiver stays low and understated, the father in the picture, steady and reliable.