"It's called 'Valengasus SaVantera' or the Nightflower."
I slapped at the mosquito on my neck. Looking back I still was not impressed.
"Really Martin? Really? Two planes, a jeep ride through hell and a five hour slog through rain forest for this?"
Martin smiles at me. His big toothed grin, which shows how badly he needs to see a dentist.
"Here."
He tries to hand me a small tin. I look at him sharply.
"I really don't think a breath mint is going to help my attitude, Martin."
He chuckles. He takes a sip from his canteen. The smell of tequila wafts over to me. Not helping my mood at all. He lifts the tin to where I can see it and opens the lid. Inside I see a light blue paste almost the exact color of the flower. So far that beautiful color is all this small plant seems to have going for it.
"Natives in the jungle make this stuff. You give a smell." He grins at me again.
I swat away a cloud of gnats and reluctantly take the tin. Lifting it to my nose I slowly sniff.
The scent catches me off guard. It's strong but not over powering. Warm, lush, ripe. Flowery, fruity? Nothing describes it right.
I notice my breath quicken. I pull it away from my nose. Almost immediately I want to bring it back. I really have to fight the urge. It's stronger that a drug craving. With hands that are close to shaking I hand it back.
Martin nods at me. He looks impressed.
"Not bad. I had my nose in that little box for an hour when I first smelled it. Hell of a thing no?"
Working for the perfume industry for twenty years I have developed a very good 'nose'. I can tell what animal a type of musk came from at a whiff. Roses by type. Bitter bases notes from fragrant top notes across the room.
I have never smelled anything like this! But then again it almost feels familiar. Like a scent from your Mom's house that would bring back memories without knowing what it was.
"Woman in village no having kids. Maybe the man's fault? They have no high price doctor to put things up her snatch to tell them that." Martin plucked the blue flower, small hardly bigger than a daisy. He lifted it to his wide flared nose. He shuddered and smiles.
"Women...old women of the village they get together. They go to her house late at night. When she sleeping. They grab her, drag her off. The men folk tie the husband up. They cover the girl in this stuff and then turn her lose in big hut full of all men in village. She gets the hell fucked out her snatch. After that they watch. She no get pregnant she have to leave. She get pregnant, child be special. Child of the Nightflower powerful person in village. They say is most fertile person in whole village. If male all women want to marry him, if girl all men want to marry her. Big magic to them this flower."
"It's an aphrodisiac?" I ask. My hands are shaking. I want to smell it again. Just the flower near by is hard to ignore.
"You already knows that." He says pointing at my crotch
I nod. I've been half hard sense the first whiff.
"So you like no?"
Nodding I look at the flower. Small. Looks like it might be easy to transport.
"Anymore like these near by?"
He grins that shit eating grin.
"Oh yea man. Many as you want."
* * *
It took weeks of work in hot houses and Martin had to make more than a few trips back in, but we did it. We got them growing.
It took the lab boys a few weeks of testing to get to the answer. Mostly because they didn't look in the right places. When the answer came it was a shock. The Nightflower by some freak twist of nature copies the human pheromone most often associated with sex. To a near miraculous degree.
As the top for a perfume it's like sex appeal in a bottle. Plus it makes Viagra look like candy. Your own cologne would have you hard. Her perfume would keep you hard. My god it was fucking beautiful man. Everyone was going to want it for their perfume. We owned the patent on it.
The first weekend we sold only about two thousand bottles nation wide. Average sales for a high dollar perfume. The next weekend we had an order for a million bottles go out! Then twice that by midweek! After that we stopped counting bottles. We counted truckloads!
And money! I was a millionaire in side of a month! In two months I was on top of the fucking world, with a sex goddess to suck my cock whenever I got a whim for her too. I just knew that in two years I would have Donald Trump polishing my shoes and Bill Gates networking my home computer.