Impassable Wilderness • Imaginary Authors

House Imaginary Authors
Released 2026
Perfumer Josh Meyer
Fragrance Family Woods
Notes grand fir, scotch pine, resurrection fern, red cedar, oakmoss, petrichor, The Ancient Grove 

Description Just beyond the city of Portland in the Pacific Northwest, there’s a place where people just don’t go. The forest is too deep. The hills are too steep. Overgrown and impassable, these woods have remained hidden for generations from the world outside. Prue McKeel, however, desperately needs to get inside. Her baby brother Mac has been snatched up by a murder of beady-eyed crows and carried away into the darkest depths of the forest, and she has to save him.

But what started out as a rescue mission becomes something much more.

This is the story of a girl who learns how far she must go to hold on to the ones she loves, and of a woman who never learned to let go. It is a tale of love, loss, sacrifice and secrets, and of the magic you can find on your doorstep, if you are willing to look for it.

Portland is a small town, and we’re fortunate to have such a tight-knit creative community. Imaginary Authors has ties to many talented members of the LAIKA team, including the Production Designer of WILDWOOD, Nelson Lowry, who happens to be a big fan of niche fragrances from around the world and helped develop this fragrance with them. Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, who wrote and illustrated the original WILDWOOD books, are also close personal friends of the Imaginary Authors crew (Ashod used to house-sit for them at the house that inspired the trilogy!).

Cowritten by Wildwood, a feature film in theaters October 23.