Perfumer's Haiku - two lives, one city and quite the art of survival

In the heart of Paris, where cobblestones echo with centuries of dreams and disillusionment, two souls navigate the invisible cages of modern life-one chasing the ephemeral, the other trapped in the eternal grind.

Élise, a spirited perfumery student with ink-stained hands and a nose for the poetry of scent, trades her sun-drenched Marseille past for a drafty attic in Le Marais. Her world is one of burnt orange peel, jasmine secrets, and the relentless pressure to turn art into commerce.
Antoine, a corporate soldier in a glass-walled labyrinth, spends his days drowning in spreadsheets and his nights scribbling haiku in the margins of a life half-lived. His victories are small, his regrets quieter still-until a single photograph of a dandelion cracks his polished facade.

But their true antagonist is not a person. It's the System: the soul-crushing machinery of corporate greed, the weight of societal expectations, and the lie that success must taste like stale coffee and compromise.

What if the bravest thing you could do was notice the world-and yourself-before the System convinces you not to?