Norwegian Wood

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FÀP ESSAYS · AROMATIC RENDERING
03 / 2021

NORWEGIAN WOOD

Source — Haruki Murakami
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»Summer, Fall, And Winter. Innocence, Love, And Loss.«

Published in 1987, Norwegian Wood launched Haruki Murakami to literary stardom in Japan — a young man's passage through love, loss, and sexuality in 1960s Tokyo. Each season carries its own weight: summer's innocence, fall's deepening, winter's quiet grief. The fragrance translates this passage through time — clean and sheer, then woody, then the smoke of incense lingering after someone has left the room.

WOODY · FLORAL · INCENSE

MATERIALS
whiskey, metallic rose, cashmere wood, amber, incense, sandalwood, oakwood, musk

Each bottle carries its own artwork.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

FÀP ESSAYS · AROMATIC RENDERING
03 / 2021

NORWEGIAN WOOD

Source — Haruki Murakami
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»Summer, Fall, And Winter. Innocence, Love, And Loss.«

Published in 1987, Norwegian Wood launched Haruki Murakami to literary stardom in Japan — a young man's passage through love, loss, and sexuality in 1960s Tokyo. Each season carries its own weight: summer's innocence, fall's deepening, winter's quiet grief. The fragrance translates this passage through time — clean and sheer, then woody, then the smoke of incense lingering after someone has left the room.

WOODY · FLORAL · INCENSE

MATERIALS
whiskey, metallic rose, cashmere wood, amber, incense, sandalwood, oakwood, musk

Each bottle carries its own artwork.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.