Chansoo One Shots I

Makes Scent

Kyungsoo has always been fascinated with 'smell' ever since he could identify them with a name, and has always dreamt to be a perfumist, which isn't really approved by his family. Apparently, the Do family has found it hard to accept their only son as "such a feminine occupation as a perfumist". So, Kyungsoo continued his interest behind closed doors and continued his study to become a chef, in order to please his family as a restaurant business has been handing down on the Do family for many generations.

Initially, his mother wants him to become a doctor, which his father denied and instead forced him into cooking line, so when the time comes he will inherit the family business. Kyungsoo isn't that much against cooking, for he loves it almost as much as testing new smells for perfumes and alike. The thing he likes best about cooking is, of course, the smell. He can differentiate different smells that is added in a dish, and even though the smell of the food isn't as pleasant as the sweet, rich scent of perfumes he still likes it better than the smell of the hospital. So, there, he isn't that much unhappy of his already picked future job.

Kyungsoo loves lavender best. It makes him calm, relax and well, he reasons. It isn't too sweet, but at the same time it has the right amount of sweetness and richy scent where he feels like all his stress, his anxiety and anything alike are reduced to nothing but a soothing calmness. And the colour, it isn't rich, but at the same time just colourful enough to capture your attention for all minutes of your eyes can endure without blinking once in a while.

Since Kyungsoo can't exactly go to a proper institution, the internet and his own nose are what all he has. Sometimes it isn't enough, but two houses down there is a neighbor, Mrs. Kim, who is fortunately interested in flowers, and when one is interested in such thing one has come accustom to differentiating smells, and he would sneak out and ask her about when he can.

So, Kyungsoo, being born with a good nose and a natural curiosity he is, he is intrigued when the most beautiful and lovely scent he ever has the audacity to dream of hits his nose one day while he's driving a bus home from school. It isn't everyday that you smell something out of the ordinary, so Kyungsoo immediately tries to find the source. He concentrates on that particular smell and ignore all others. He looks around (and sniffing), standing as he is he gets a little better chance in looking around, and comes face to side with the quest he is searching for.

It is a tall man, Kyungsoo quickly noted, a tall, strange man with a mop of light pink hair tossing over his head. 'He looks like a mountain' is what Kyungsoo thinks first, because clearly the man towers everyone in the bus who is standing in the mildly crowded aisle. There are about three people who separated them, and still Kyungsoo can't help but feel like a dwarf to the man with a strange yet pleasant scent. The man has his headphones on and bobbing along with whatever music he's listening, he looks like he's in a faraway land with his eyes looking out of the window yet clouded with the type of midst that indicates one is imagining a scenario.

Wanting to get a better whiff of the strange, intriguing and pleasant scent, Kyungsoo decided to move a little closer to the man. He slowly walks around the people between them, as much as the small place allows him to without actually jostling any of them or get the man's attention to himself. When he finally succeed in standing beside the man, Kyungsoo takes in as much of air as he can manage without looking like a creep, and along with the air- the man's scent.

Immediately, Kyungsoo feels ecstasy clouding his brain, the kind that always does whenever he get a good amount smell of the best and finest scent he comes up with. At first, the smell is too strong for him to determine what kind of which is there, but after a few deep breath, he can finally come up with the answer.

Lavender, is the first scent he detected, his favourite, of course. And then, cocoa comes next. Kyungsoo has never thought the two would ever make a good, especially as excellent as the one he is breathing in, scent when mixing together and he feels his head dizzy with calmness. Then there was definitely a faint scent of an English tea. Maybe the man has drank some tea before riding the bus, he isn't sure. And there was the unmistakable scent of strawberry, or is that lemon. Kyungsoo turns his head a little, and gets a faint trace of cinnamon and wood, like an old library with books of ancient. Everything is strange, Kyungsoo is confused. The man's scent is a mixture of different smells and his brain muddled up in a strange sense of calmness and self satisfied relaxation. Kyungsoo can't really tell from where the scent comes, or what type of product it is the man used. He is sure it is a perfume, but something in the back of his mind tells him that it is the man's natural scent, which is actually funny because as far as Kyungsoo is concern, human's skin smells like sweat and if not just the natural kind where one can say there is no scent.