My exhaustion evaporated as I climbed the busy stairs of the Pont de l'Alma Metro Station. An aroma hit me like I had just opened a jar of joy mixed with an emotion I couldn’t decipher. Immediately my logical self forcefully reminded me, “You are a former Navy SEAL. Navy SEALs are not moved by emotions, especially emotions emanating from someone’s perfume,” if that’s what this was. “Get a hold of yourself,” I whispered under my breath.
Antoine is a man of strength, courage, and self-reliance, not flighty emotions. The whiff of a woman’s perfume at a Paris Metro exit has the U.S. Air Marshall obsessed in finding the aroma and the woman wearing it. Domiciled in Paris, France, he is on the trail of an illusive terrorist cell. Also pulled by his secret goal to become a published author, and find his mystery woman and her perfume, Antoine can’t find the time in his day to follow every trail to its desired end. A strange old man, who seems to be following him, adds to his list of concerns. If he could just find his mystery woman, order could return to his life. When he actually does find her, everything threatens to spin out of control.
Sylvie is a perfumer prodigy. Her life is exactly what she has worked hard to achieve since she was a young girl on her grandmother’s lap. She is the lead perfumer at an up-an- coming perfume house in New York City. Her work takes her back to her home country of France on a regular basis, and she just landed a huge contract for her company. On her last day in Paris, inking the big contract, a young man calls after her as she enters a taxi. Startled, she closes the car door, and the taxi whisks her away as she studies the man through the back window. Strong and handsome, but a little scary, she tries to put the memory of him behind her. Her singular, well-ordered lifepath is about to fracture into multiple directions of opportunities and setbacks, rewards and catastrophe.
Does following one potentially life changing trail negate following another just as monumental? If you really had to choose the safety of others over your own personal desires, would you always do it? Act or be acted upon—sometime the latter’s allure seems preferable.
Antoine is a man of strength, courage, and self-reliance, not flighty emotions. The whiff of a woman’s perfume at a Paris Metro exit has the U.S. Air Marshall obsessed in finding the aroma and the woman wearing it. Domiciled in Paris, France, he is on the trail of an illusive terrorist cell. Also pulled by his secret goal to become a published author, and find his mystery woman and her perfume, Antoine can’t find the time in his day to follow every trail to its desired end. A strange old man, who seems to be following him, adds to his list of concerns. If he could just find his mystery woman, order could return to his life. When he actually does find her, everything threatens to spin out of control.
Sylvie is a perfumer prodigy. Her life is exactly what she has worked hard to achieve since she was a young girl on her grandmother’s lap. She is the lead perfumer at an up-an- coming perfume house in New York City. Her work takes her back to her home country of France on a regular basis, and she just landed a huge contract for her company. On her last day in Paris, inking the big contract, a young man calls after her as she enters a taxi. Startled, she closes the car door, and the taxi whisks her away as she studies the man through the back window. Strong and handsome, but a little scary, she tries to put the memory of him behind her. Her singular, well-ordered lifepath is about to fracture into multiple directions of opportunities and setbacks, rewards and catastrophe.
Does following one potentially life changing trail negate following another just as monumental? If you really had to choose the safety of others over your own personal desires, would you always do it? Act or be acted upon—sometime the latter’s allure seems preferable.
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