SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

Scents Lie. Your Body Doesn't.

Day 2 of 7: Quantum Releasing Before the Solstice Portal

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Dea Devidas
Dec 14, 2025
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You’ve kept a perfume for six years because “it was expensive” even though every time you spray it you mentally teleport to a bathroom floor crying about someone who now has a baby with a woman named Chelsea. That bottle holds an olfactory crime scene you keep reopening on purpose. Somewhere in your drawer lives a candle from your “self-care era” that smells like the specific flavor of dissociation you were calling peace in 2021. You light it when you want to relax. Your nervous system lights up like a switchboard of everything you were avoiding that year.

Your nose is a backdoor into your nervous system. No security. No logic. No chance for your mind to build a defense. Scent bypasses every cognitive checkpoint and lands directly in limbic tissue, where memory lives without language and your body holds what your mouth never said.

That essential oil blend you bought because the label said “calming”? Your body doesn’t read labels. Your body reads frequency. And right now it reads: this i…

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