Hornet's Hollyhock

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Hornet's Hollyhock is a glass flower that houses a hornet from the Bugs on Parade system and will create individual perfume combinations. The hornet must be in gemstone form. It first appeared in the shop at Mairiseth_Telearat in Ta'Nalfein 2025.

Analyze

You take a closer look at a silver-strung spun glass hollyhock.
You analyze the spun glass hollyhock and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

The Hornet's Hollyhock
This tiny magic hollyhock can house a hornet that will make small doses of perfume for you.

To Add a Hornet:
Obtain any gemstone hornet from the Bugs on Parade system and PUSH it into the hollyhock.

To Create a Perfume:
1.  With a hornet installed, WAVE your hollyhock at a foraged rose.
2.  With or without a hornet installed, TWIST your hollyhock to obtain a list of incense elements.
3.  With or without a hornet installed, WHISPER INCENSE # to your hollyhock to set an incense element.
4.  TURN your hollyhock to obtain the starting notes of your perfume.

Additional Information:
RUB will put the perfume on you once it is created, SMELL will give you a preview of the perfume, CLEAN will remove the perfume from your hollyhock, PULL removes the current hornet so it can be replaced.

Some final Notes:
This hollyhock is a magical item.  You can hold it or wear it to work with it.  It creates 4 doses of perfume each time you work with the hornet inside.

Alteration Guidelines:
You may alter the hollyhock, but it can only take a base or long description change.  The SHOW is stock.
Please make sure that you are not contradicting the stock show when coming up with your design.

Due to the nature of the item, only the following nouns are acceptable:  acanthus, allamanda, angel's trumpet, anise hyssop, azalea, bellflower, bird of paradise, black sage, bleeding heart, blue sage, bluebell, bottlebrush, butterfly bush, calibrachoa, cape fuchsia, cardinal flower, catmint, trumpet vine, chrysothemis, climbing snapdragon, columbine, coral honeysuckle, cuphea, desert willow, fuchsia, gentian, gladiolus, globeflower, golden trumpet, hollyhock, honeysuckle, hummingbird mint, paintbrush, jacobinia, jewelweed, lobelia, monkeyflower, penstemon, petunia, phlox, pineapple sage, plumbago, salvia, scarlet gilia, snapdragon, throatwort, tobacco flower, trumpet vine, weigela

It must also always be fashioned out of glass of some kind.

Your current scent is:  Bergamot winds across your skin in bright ribbons, chased by the fleeting trace of {incense} curling through the air.  

Usage

Verb First Third
CLEAN Needed NA
Removes the current perfume from the vial.
PULL
Removes the current bee inside.
PUSH {HORNET GEMSTONE}
RUB
Applies the current perfume.
SMELL
Previews the current perfume.
SMOOCH
TICKLE
TURN NA
Cycles the perfume's first note phrase options.
WAVE VIAL AT {TBA}
Uses the offered TBA as part of the perfume's first notes.
WAVE VIAL AT {FLOWER}
Use the offered flower as part of the perfume's finishing note.

Additional Information

A Hornet's Hollyhock vial has a hard-coded LOOK/SHOW description, which features the hornet inserted. Because of this, it can only support long description alterations.

Delicate glass petals hang in a spiral around a hollow center, perfectly still and open.  No presence rests within, though a faint warmth lingers behind, along with the brittle trace of something once alive and attentive.  A simple chain slips through the stem, allowing the blossom to be worn.

Making Perfume

When using PUSH to insert a hornet, the insect must be in the right hand and it must be a gemstone version of a Bugs on Parade insect. The perfume-creating process consumes the hornet gemstone. Upon the last dose being used, the hollyhock clears out all of its data except for the hornet, which will persist unless it is manually removed/destroyed.

Foraged TBA are the only items that can be added. The perfume-creating process does not consume the TBA. TBA determine the first notes of the created perfume, which can have their phrasing cycled between set options via TURN. Roses determine the finishing notes. Different types of roses have their own unique scents when turned into perfume, which are specific to the rose type foraged.

Each combination creates 4 doses of perfume. The perfume is stored in the vial and cannot be extracted to share. Perfume lasts for the standard 4 hours.

The order of operations does not matter. You can WAVE {TBA}, WAVE {ROSE}, or TURN in any order. However, you must have a TBA and rose installed in order to RUB and apply the perfume.

TURN works at any point on the hollyhock. If you apply the perfume, decide you want a different opening note, then you can TURN again and reapply. It will shift the first notes sentence, but not the TBA or flower.

Perfume made by the vial can not be poured onto paper. The perfume is not drinkable.

First Note Options

The perfume's first note phrase can be cycled between the following options via TURN:

See Also

Hornet's Hollyhock Information
Type Fluff
Crafting
Item Classification Miscellaneous
Item(s) Applied to Vial
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep No
Original Release Venue Mairiseth Telearat
Original Release Year 2025
Corresponding Item Scripts Bugs on Parade
Restrictions Long descriptions only.
Noun is restricted to ampoule, bottle, flacon, flask, periapt, phial, or vial.
Item Verbs
CLEAN PULL PUSH RUB
SMELL SMOOCH TICKLE TURN
WAVE