Cocoa in the yellow wallpaper room

Vanille Noire du Mexique is vanilla of dark, moody florals and balsamic resins that that for a few seconds smells like the platonic ideal of a hot chocolate served in your favorite childhood mug, but there's something a bit off-kilter about it, too. You're enjoying your steaming portion of nostalgia in a claustrophobic room with creeping yellow wallpaper, with a friend who has a mysterious green ribbon tied around her throat. She evades your questions about her enigmatic neckwear and asks how are you enjoying your bouquet; you glance down and your hot cocoa is pale orchid, an Aeranthes grandalena, its blossoms exuding notes of Jasmine, caramel, butterscotch.