Journal

Notes from Seoul.

Occasional writing about the products, how to use them, and what actually matters in a routine.

July 2026

Eleven days of birch sap

The window between the last frost and the first bud, and what happens to the sap after it closes.

June 2026

What a batch code tells you

How to read the six characters on the bottom of a Korean bottle, and why we photograph them.

May 2026

Why we hold the parcel

One item between batches, two parcels, two rounds of customs. The maths of waiting.

April 2026

32 degrees

Why a balm that melts one degree under skin temperature behaves completely differently from one that melts two degrees over.

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