It started as a gift.
Nearly a decade ago, Minna made The Original as a gift for Noah, her boyfriend at the time. She found a perfumer she trusted, sat with the materials, and built it from the ground up, a scent quiet enough to live close to the skin, strong enough to hold the room after he'd left it.
He wore it for years. People kept asking what he was wearing. Today Minna and Noah are engaged, building Noah Wood side by side, and The Original is the same scent, almost a decade later.
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