Chocolate Mint Echo Lisianthus

The name Chocolate Mint is the kind of thing that appears on a dessert menu at a restaurant that takes itself slightly too seriously — not wrong, exactly, but aware of itself in a way that other desserts are not. Echo is the name of someone who was never allowed to finish a sentence in Greek mythology and has been making up for it ever since. The lisianthus, meanwhile, is Japan's quiet answer to the rose: layered, considered, present without announcing itself, the kind of flower that a person of genuine taste notices first and says nothing about. Chocolate Mint Echo walked into that tradition and somehow belongs there completely.