G. L. Haab

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The scent of beginnings

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Clara Skakka has always been able to smell what others miss.The daughter of a Copenhagen florist, she has sensed emotions through scent since childhood - fear as cold metal, love as vanilla and warm skin, grief pressing down like fog that never quite lifts. She has never understood why.Then a Swedish psychologist dies of a sudden heart attack, and Clara's senses explode: nosebleeds, overwhelming floods of emotion from every person in her building, scents that shouldn't exist. Something has transferred to her. Something ancient.A cryptic journal left by her grandmother draws her to Grasse, France, the cradle of perfumery, where an elite programme teaches the chemistry of scent and the science of emotion. Yet beneath the labs and jasmine fields lies a hidden order:The Twelve Gifts -ancient abilities carried by only 144 people worldwide. Life, Death, Power, Truth, Memory...
Clara's Gift is Balance - the most essential, and the most dangerous. The power to sense when humans and systems tip towards chaos, and to restore equilibrium. It is also the Gift that divides a fractured Society: one side guards the Gifts, the other wants to weaponize them - through products, politics, and control.In a world where every breath can influence a choice, Clara must decide what she is willing to become.

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Introduction to G.L. Haab

G. L. Haab is a pen name chosen to allow the author to remain active in the world of Flavours and Fragrances while exploring its beauty, excitement and ethical complexities through fiction.
More than thirty years in the industry have provided the knowledge to write this story authentically; the pen name simply provides the distance to imagine and reflect it freely.

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