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text-transform: uppercase;\n    color: var(--candlelight); font-style: normal !important;\n    margin-top: 12px !important; font-weight: bold;\n  }\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-product\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-header\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-brand-label\"\u003eSugar Mama's Artisan Fragrances\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-brand-label\"\u003eThe Southern Belle Gothic Oud Collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"smf-belle-name\"\u003eLan Phuong Song Huong\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-fragrance-name\"\u003eStill Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-trio\"\u003eWhite Orchid • Golden Vanilla • Oud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-identity\"\u003eSpiritual Power | The Loner | Vietnamese American | Louisiana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-badge\"\u003eSpiritual Power | The Loner | The Southern Belle Gothic Oud Collection\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-collection-tagline\"\u003eThey didn't reject Southern femininity. They mastered it, then transcended it.\u003cbr\u003eThey used the grace, the charm, the elegance as armor while building something entirely their own underneath.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- SNAP PROFILE --\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center; padding: 24px 32px;\" class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 2px; color: var(--charcoal); margin: 0 0 4px;\"\u003eSTILL WATERS ·\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 2px; color: var(--charcoal); margin: 0 0 4px;\"\u003eWhite Orchid · Golden Vanilla · Oud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; color: var(--gold); margin: 0 0 14px;\"\u003eWoody Floral Aquatic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"smf-body\"\u003eStill water truly runs deep. A luminous, serene orchid and waterlily opening that settles into warm golden vanilla and jasmine sambac, then deepens into ancient oud wood. For the woman who changes a room's temperature without raising her voice. Like Cyndi Nguyen, Norma Castillo, and the women who rebuilt the South, thank you for being Uprooted and showing us how to be Unshakeable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 13px; color: var(--charcoal); margin: 8px 0 0; line-height: 1.7;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTop:\u003c\/strong\u003e White Orchid, Waterlily, Lily, Neroli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeart:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jasmine Sambac, Golden Vanilla, Ginger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBase:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oud Wood, Sandalwood, Patchouli, White Musk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-quote\"\u003e\"She doesn't need soil to grow.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eThe Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003eStill water truly runs deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003eShe arrived with nothing this land recognized. Not her language. Not her skills. Not her history. A woman uprooted from everything she knew, she planted herself in Louisiana soil the way the white orchid attaches itself to new ground: without permission, without the earth it was born from, drawing life from air and rain and sheer refusal to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003eShe did not demand to be seen. She became impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003eThis is the fragrance of a woman who turned displacement into depth. Who built a home from borrowed things, a community from strangers, a legacy from memory. Who speaks rarely and watches always. Whose silence is not emptiness but a stillness so complete it reshapes the riverbed without ever rushing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003ePeople underestimate her exactly once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eThe Shero Lineage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-inspiration\"\u003eIn the spirit of the immigrant women who escaped something unimaginable, landed in the American South, and built something lasting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey didn't inherit the title of Southern Belle. They earned it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUprooted to Unshakeable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCyndi Nguyen\u003c\/strong\u003e arrived in the United States from Vietnam when she was five years old. A refugee child who grew into the first Vietnamese American woman to serve on the New Orleans City Council. She did not wait for a seat at the table. She built one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorma Castillo\u003c\/strong\u003e came to the United States from Honduras in 1980 with her husband and their young son, seeking medical treatment that did not exist in her country. She became a single mother. She learned to run a bakery in six months with no training. At 47, she finally opened her own. Then Hurricane Katrina took her home. She rebuilt. Today, Norma's International Market and Bakery in Kenner, Louisiana, is a cornerstone of the Latin community and a testament to what a displaced woman can build when she refuses to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Vietnamese Refugee Women of Louisiana\u003c\/strong\u003e are the mothers, oyster shuckers, gardeners, and salon owners who arrived after the fall of Saigon with nothing but their children and their memory. They rebuilt New Orleans East, Abbeville, and communities across the state with their hands and their silence. They planted gardens in borrowed soil and turned recipes mailed from home into the bread that feeds a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lebanese and Syrian Immigrant Women of the South\u003c\/strong\u003e are the peddlers who walked the Mississippi Delta with packs on their backs, the storekeepers who anchored small towns in Mississippi and Alabama, the mothers who kept their language alive in kitchens while raising daughters who spoke English at school and Arabic at the dinner table. Their individual stories live in family archives, not public records. This fragrance honors them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll of them, uprooted. All of them, unshakeable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eFrom Wound to Worth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-oud-box\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Oud Principle\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aquilaria tree does not succumb to trauma. It generates a biological defense so rare and fragrant it has been valued above gold for centuries. Lan Phuong knows this story. Her wound was the displacement: a woman uprooted from her home, her country, her language, her context. Her oud was the response. She planted herself in foreign soil and grew deeper than roots born in place. She built a home, a community, a legacy. Not by demanding to be seen, but by becoming impossible to ignore. Still Waters is the scent of that transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eThe Fragrance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStill water truly runs deep.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-notes-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-note-column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"smf-note-label\"\u003eTop Notes: The Arrival\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eWhite Orchid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eWaterlily\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eLily\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eNeroli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-story\"\u003eThe first breath is luminous and still. White orchid opens without announcement, the way she enters a room. Waterlily floats beneath it, crystalline and suspended, like morning light on a bayou that hasn't decided whether to move yet. Lily adds a quiet Southern warmth, the scent of the soil she chose. Neroli brightens the opening the way sun breaks through cypress trees, then steps aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-note-column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"smf-note-label\"\u003eHeart Notes: The Warmth\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eJasmine Sambac\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eGolden Vanilla\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eGinger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-story\"\u003eTwo cultures meeting in one woman. Jasmine sambac adds body and presence, the quiet confidence that does not need volume to fill a room. Golden vanilla is the sweetness of rebuilding, of new roots taking hold in foreign earth. Ginger adds a subtle spark underneath, the kind of warmth people feel before they understand where it came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-note-column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"smf-note-label\"\u003eBase Notes: The Depth\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eOud Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eSandalwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003ePatchouli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-item\"\u003eWhite Musk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-note-story\"\u003eAnd then the depth arrives. Oud wood, ancient and earned, the wound made worth. Sandalwood grounds the meditation. Patchouli pulls everything down into the rich Louisiana earth where her roots now run deeper than those born in place. White musk is the final word: soft, persistent, impossible to forget. She lingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eWear Still Waters When\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"smf-wear-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou walk into a room and change the temperature without raising your voice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou are proof that starting over is not starting from nothing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou carry two worlds inside you and neither one is small\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-quote\"\u003eStill Waters does not smell decorative.\u003cbr\u003eIt smells like patience. It smells like depth.\u003cbr\u003eIt smells like a woman who was uprooted and became unshakeable.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: #8b5e3c; margin-top: 12px;\" class=\"smf-body\"\u003eThe orchid that crossed an ocean. The lily that waited in the soil.\u003cbr\u003eBoth proof that beauty takes root wherever it is allowed to grow.\u003cbr\u003eShe runs deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-section-title\"\u003eThe Collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003eLan Phuong is one of six women in \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Belle Gothic Oud Collection\u003c\/em\u003e by Sugar Mama's Artisan Fragrances. Six women. Six stories of strategic, generative, emotional, magnetic, spiritual, and adaptive power. One signature: oud, the ancient resin the Aquilaria tree produces only under pressure and wound. The world's most precious perfume ingredient. The collection's central metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Wound to Worth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Six:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCordelia Thibodaux • Black Rose Mojo • Strategic Power\u003cbr\u003eEvangeline Beauregard • The Quiet Storm • Emotional Power\u003cbr\u003eGuadalupe \"Lupe\" De León • Indispensable • Generative Power\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Astor Whitfield • The Debutante • Debutante's Calling\u003cbr\u003eLan Phuong Song Huong • Still Waters • Spiritual Power\u003cbr\u003eDorothy \"Dottie\" Hargrove • Audacity • Adaptive Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smf-footer\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"smf-footer-tagline\"\u003e\"They didn't reject Southern femininity. 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