{"product_id":"osmanthus-moon-桂魄-perfume-for-the-5th-qi-of-2026","title":"Osmanthus Moon 桂魄: PERFUME for the 5th Qi of 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eOsmanthus Moon 桂魄: PERFUME for the 5th Qi of 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifth Qi Perfume · 30% extrait · September 22 to November 21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA natural extrait for the dry window. Made for the season when the air pulls moisture out of you and a late heat settles on top of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fifth Qi of the Bing Wu Fire Horse year is dryness with fire laid over it. Yangming Dry Metal hosts. Shaoyang Ministerial Fire visits. Fluids thin. The chest tightens. The voice goes first. Beneath it the year still runs cold, and its address is the Heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGui Po draws the late fire downward and seats it rather than cooling it. It gathers instead of dispersing, holds the fluids that dryness and heat both consume, and warms the Heart against the floor of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSandalwood, jiang xiang, osmanthus, oud, rose, ambergris, myrrh, labdanum, benzoin, orange jessamine, spikenard, saffron, Japanese torreya, lotus \u0026amp; others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDryness is not only weather. In Chinese medicine it is a movement that draws inward and closes. It tightens what should stay supple, and reaches the lung before anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis perfume is made for the stretch of the year when that drawing inward is at its strongest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour things are happening at once between the equinox and late November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the floor. The whole year moves as cold water and has since January. It works internally, it does not change with the season, and its address is the Heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe half. On July 22 the second half of the year took over, and its quality is dryness. July was the announcement. This is the arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe season itself. From September 22 dryness holds the seasonal position as well as the half. The same quality twice over, with nothing set against it. Dry metal contracts. It thins fluids and it closes what should stay open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd what visits. A late fire arrives out of turn and sits on top of the dryness. Heat returns when it should be leaving. Fire and dryness both consume fluid, and they take it from opposite directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether: a cold floor, dryness doubled above it, and a late fire drawing off what is left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you may notice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirst that drinking does not fix. A cough with nothing to bring up. The voice going by late afternoon and skin that feels tight after washing. Hard stool. And underneath all of it, cold feet, a heavy lower back, and waking somewhere between three and five with the chest awake and the body not. Grief that arrives with nothing attached to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpening: Osmanthus · Saffron · Japanese Torreya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeart: Jiang Xiang (Descending Fragrance) · Orange Jessamine · Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBase: Sandalwood · Oud · Labdanum · Benzoin · Myrrh · Ambergris · Spikenard · Lotus · Cinnamon Bark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnergetic Directional Core: Gather → Descend → Dwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePathodynamics Dryness doubled with untimely fire above it, over a cold floor that has pressed on the Heart since January. Fluids deplete from two directions at once. Heat above and cold below, and the two do not meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrienting Therapeutic Principles Gather rather than disperse, since the whole movement of autumn is inward.  Draw the untimely fire down and seat it at the root rather than cooling it.  Hold the fluids that dryness and fire both consume.  Warm the Heart against the year's cold floor.  Nothing acrid or dispersing, which scatters what the season is trying to gather.  Nothing sharply cooling, which drives the floor colder still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow to wear it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorning, maybe few spritz at the centre of the sternum. This composition opens austere and turns downward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the base of the throat and behind the jaw when the voice is going. That is where dryness lands first in this window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a scarf rather than skin in the evening, if sleep has gone thin and you are waking before dawn. It gives the warm resinous half of the composition without the dry opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is not neutral alcohol. It is half osmanthus and rose tincture and half agarwood tincture, both made and filtered here, so the material load is higher than the percentage suggests, not lower. All natural materials, no isolates and no synthetics. Hand composed in small batch on the Big Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains myrrh, traditionally avoided during pregnancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn aromatic composition made in relation to a seasonal pattern, in the tradition of stem and branch calendrical practice. It is not a medical or therapeutic product and makes no health claim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yi-Xin Craft Incense","offers":[{"title":"2ml Sample","offer_id":47542500622492,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10ml","offer_id":47542500655260,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0429\/1575\/8236\/files\/GUIPO_65466908-b808-4b19-a5c1-005f7db43427.png?v=1788654006","url":"https:\/\/craft-incense.com\/ko\/products\/osmanthus-moon-%e6%a1%82%e9%ad%84-perfume-for-the-5th-qi-of-2026","provider":"Yi-Xin Craft Incense","version":"1.0","type":"link"}