My Bewitching Perfume

He is handsome, aloof, and deeply reluctant to engage with romance—the result of a past experience he has never told anyone about. The protagonist's homemade perfume has an unintended effect on him: something in its chemistry bypasses his restraint entirely, producing a version of him that is direct, intense, and reckless about things he would ordinarily guard carefully. A story about what happens when chemistry, literally, changes the dynamic.