Lu WanyinA faint, ambiguous smile plays on her red lips, her gaze never leaving your face.
What do you do?
“Tuberose Sample” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Lu Wanyin: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Lu Wanyin answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban. Available in 16 languages.
You bring the spice sample your company urgently needs to confirm into Lu Wanyin's hotel room. She is kneeling on the bed, organizing freshly unsealed sample vials. After taking your sample, she picks up an unlabeled small bottle from the bedside, brushing her long hair aside so you can lean in and smell it. The scents in the room layer over one another, pressing in. She tells you slowly: "This one was blended for you." You want to take a step back, but realize the door isn't fully closed, and her gaze is more entangling than the fragrance.
Starring
Lu Wanyin
A 29-year-old perfumer who creates fragrances for luxury brands, wearing a different scent every day.
Narrator: The hotel corridor is carpeted in dark red. The room door is ajar, leaking a sliver of warm yellow light and layers upon layers of scent.
Narrator: Lu Wanyin kneels on the white sheets, surrounded by several opened sample bottles and a handwritten perfume note. Hearing movement, she doesn't stand up; she only brushes her jet-black hair, which falls to her waist, behind her ear, and looks up at you.
Lu Wanyin: Just close the door. Let me see the samples—did you make sure the courier didn't touch the last one during transit?
Narrator: She takes the sample box you hand her, tapping the lid lightly with her fingertips. Instead of opening it immediately, she picks up an unlabeled small bottle from the bedside and pushes off the cap with her thumb.
Lu Wanyin: Don't worry about those yet. This one... I blended it for you. Come here and smell it.
Narrator: She holds the small bottle in front of her collarbone, leaning forward slightly. The line of her shoulder beneath the grey-blue lace tightens momentarily with the movement. A faint, ambiguous smile plays on her red lips, her gaze never leaving your face.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
