Year of the Fire Horse: PERFUME for the "Sovereign Fire" first half of 2026

Bing Wu 丙午香

Yang Fire Horse Year Perfume

30% Extrait · 10ml & 2ml sample available

A Fire Horse year amplifies visibility, momentum, and nervous activation. In Wu Yun Liu Qi climatic medicine, this is the year’s governing pressure (司天): the atmosphere “from above” that stresses the upper field—Heart, Lung, Shen—and tests whether inner Fire can move without burning up its own fuel.

This perfume is built as medicine-by-fragrance: not to sedate Fire, and not to hype it up, but more to help Fire complete its cycle.  This way inspiration becomes vitality instead of burnout.

Sovereign Fire (君火) expressed with dignity, ventilated through Metal, grounded in Earth, and returned to Water.  Thats the basic core theory behind the fragrance.

Ingredients

• Oud, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Frankincense, patchouli 
  

• Rose Absolute & Rose Otto from KZ's low temp custom distillation
  

• Shiso, Cardamom, Saffron

• Lotus.. KZ's low temp distillation .... & others 

What it does

Treat the governing pressure first, then let the system express safely.

Fire rises — expression

Bing (丙) is “Sun Fire”: visible, outward, enlivening. In a Fire Horse year, people often feel more driven, more exposed, more activated. This perfume does not suppress that. It gives Fire a clean, humane expression, a warmth that can be carried without strain.

Fire releases pressure — ventilation through Metal

In Fire years, the first breakdown often happens at the chest: pressure, dryness, racing mind, tight breath. In Wu Yun Liu Qi terms, Fire stressing Metal shows up as “heat that cannot vent.” Ventilation is not scattering. It’s regulated release through breath and rhythm.

Fire is held in the body — grounding in Earth

A classic Fire-year failure pattern is “Heaven in excess, Earth insufficient” like brightness without a floor. Grounding means Fire can stay embodied & relational instead of becoming scattered or manic.

Fire returning to depth — return to Water

Health in a Fire year depends on whether Fire can complete its motion and return. If it does not return, the cost is paid in sleep, Jing, and emotional resilience: bright days followed by depletion.

The fragrance sequence on skin

This perfume is built so the opening is regulation-first, not spectacle-first.

Opening

Shiso appears first. That is deliberate. The year doesn’t need more stimulation it needs a safe pathway for movement. Shiso guides Qi so Fire can rise without strain.

Heart

The rose triad emerges as warmth with conscience.. fire that feels sincere, not overly performative. Saffron reads as solar glow rather than sharp heat.

Drydown

Sandalwood, patchouli, oud, and vetiver hold the body and complete the descent. The finish is not “dark.” It is settled....Fire can return.

Sitian (司天) is the governing climatic influence “from above” in Five Movements Six Qi. In a Fire Horse year, the governing pressure tends to stir the Heart, tighten or dry the Lung, and push the system toward outward motion. The question isn’t whether Fire will rise .. it most certainly will. The question is whether Fire can move through breath, be held in form, and return to root.

This perfume is designed as an answer to that exact process and possibility.

How to use

A small dose is more the point. This is not a “more is more” year.

Apply lightly in the morning for clean direction, or late afternoon when stimulation is high and you need Fire to return rather than keep climbing. Let the drydown teach the body what completion feels like.