A bottle of "Arancia Amara", the top note is the sour first hint of Marrakesh Gobi bitter orange, the middle note is the love-making evening breeze of Kyoto's evening bell wrapped in rock grass, and the base note is rotten in Shanghai's rainy season, becoming an endless narrative halfway through.
Perfumer Su Yan carries old photos of her grandmother and goes to the Red City in North Africa to search for wild bitter oranges. She encounters Amir, the spice heir who is trapped in the shackles of family marriage. The two picked oranges in the desert and talked under the stars, making a date in Kyoto; they cooked incense together in Kamogawa Machiya, confessed their love with scent, and worked day and night in the Shanghai workshop to prepare the perfume for launch.
A natural disaster in the family and a business marriage suddenly come to an end. The female supporting character Naira deliberately provokes a misunderstanding, and Amir is forced to return home to get engaged. Two years later, they reunited at the popular fragrance summit. He was married and she had a stable career. The fragrances collided but they turned around tacitly. In the end, Su Yan removed the perfume from the shelves, and Amir cut off the supply of spices to China. A love that started with a scent, only half a page of incomplete fragrance recipes remained, and they would never see each other again for the rest of their lives.
Purpose: Using fragrance and transnational love as the carrier, it tells the fateful regrets bound by reality, explores the choices between ideals, family ties and love, and uses scent to record the life trajectories of people passing by.