Jean Paul Sartre’s Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Badge Maker

This was written after remembering a gallery show by the fashion label Boudicca. Visitors were given white badges to wear, which were sprayed with the label's signature perfume, Wode, initially making the badge blue, which then slowly disappeared as if by magic, leaving nothing but the white badge plus the scent.

*          eau de nothingness
*          no Juniper
*          cardamom cipher
*          clary crumb

*          diddly squat
*         extinct hesperidic
*          nutmeg nada
*          coriander seed nihilist
*          nix angelica root
*          non Tonka bean

*          raw opium oblivion
*          black hemlock trifle
*          tuberose absolute void
*          saffron zero
*          zip styrax

*          fly speck amber
*          black hole bass notes
*          star dust mote
*          blank generation
*          come as you are