Céline Verlaine

“Experience tells me that when sandalwood and patchouli are combined, my hysteria intensifies. But I need this formula—I need it to lead me to that fragment of memory.”
“The halo is especially bright today. That must be a good omen... or a bad one... No, I mustn’t take it off! The doctors say it’s a hallucination, but they don’t understand anything.”
“This straitjacket is my only friend. Before each episode, it embraces me tightly—like a mother’s arms.”

Refined setting for the perfumer Céline Verlaine in The Scent:
Céline suffers from hysteria. During her episodes she loses consciousness and falls into a state of somnambulism, often with dangerous tendencies. Before an episode begins, she puts herself into a straitjacket to prevent harm and protect herself.

In her hands she carries a particle absorber, an artifact that shifts its form depending on the layer of the world she is traversing.