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This reminds me of a high school version of Scent and Soap (I think that’s the English name??). He’s devoted to making perfumes so a lot of what he does is approached with an … odder way than usual compared to others. The ML in S&S was the same, so focused on creating new scents that most sense of decorum went out the window depending on the situation with the FL. I feel like the setting is very similar with this story, with a FL who appreciates his devotion in a way that catches the ML’s eye by pure chance, which unfolds to their budding relationship.
HOWEVER, I feel like a lot of the story gets muddled because of the translation, which def doesn’t help with the flow between scenes. I’m not knocking the translator’s work, because I know sometimes it’s not always done by someone whose first language is English, it’s just a note of it. I feel like this story has potential if you like cliché romance tropes (which this does have, and I can appreciate them for high school romances).