Five years after her gifted sister was blinded and burned at the stake by the Emperor's depraved concubine Isabel, Cecilia steps through the palace gates wearing coarse servant wool. She keeps her head bowed and feigns total subservience while utilizing her peerless botanical perfume artistry to captivate the royal court. Beneath the polite palace etiquette, she quietly mobilizes an underground network of exploited chambermaids.
One by one, Cecilia uses intoxicating scents and laced court elixirs to drive corrupt royal officials into frantic paranoia. She exposes Isabel's monstrous rituals of harvesting youth serums from innocent girls, bringing the decadent inner court to its knees. Climbing from the scullery to the imperial throne, Cecilia rewrites the dynasty's laws in her sister's honor.
