Long Board Min New York

Unisex
Eau de Parfum
Year: 2014
Moderate
Sillage
Good
Longevity
Summer
Best Season
Casual
Best For

Fragrance Story

LONG BOARD by MiN NEW YORK is a Oriental Vanilla fragrance for women and men. LONG BOARD was launched in 2014. Top notes are Marine notes and Cardamom; middle notes are Coconut, Orange Blossom and Suntan Lotion; base notes are Vanilla, Vetiver and Amber.

Composition Profile

coconut 100%
white floral 85%
marine 70%
aromatic 60%
sweet 50%
lactonic 40%
vanilla 35%
citrus 30%
salty 25%
aquatic 20%

About the Perfumer

Unknown Perfumer

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes

First impression · 15-30 min

Marine notes Marine notes
Cardamom Cardamom

Heart Notes

Core character · 2-4 hours

Coconut Coconut
Orange Blossom Orange Blossom
Suntan Lotion Suntan Lotion

Base Notes

Lasting impression · 4+ hours

Vanilla Vanilla
Vetiver Vetiver
Amber Amber
Unique Character

Long Board Min New York by MiN NEW YORK offers a distinctive olfactory experience that stands out from other fragrances in its category.

Artisanal Creation

Crafted with the finest ingredients and a blend of traditional and modern perfumery techniques, this fragrance represents the pinnacle of the perfumer's art.

Signature Style

Long Board Min New York embodies the distinctive style of MiN NEW YORK while adding a unique chapter to their fragrance portfolio.

Character Profile

The Long Board Min New York En Archetype: Portrait of Long Board Min New York

Essence

This person is defined by the Explorer archetype-a restless soul who thrives on novelty, movement, and the pursuit of uncharted experiences. The fragrance Long Board Min New York-fresh, invigorating, with a hint of urban edge-mirrors their essence. It is a scent of open roads and city streets, of saltwater breezes and concrete jungles. Like the Explorer, they are drawn to the unknown, not out of rebellion, but out of an insatiable curiosity. They reject stagnation, preferring the rhythm of change, the thrill of reinvention.

Yet, beneath this outward freedom lies a paradox: the Explorer is both liberated and rootless. Their strength is their adaptability; their shadow is their reluctance to commit.

Style & Aesthetic

Their tastes are eclectic but deliberate-a mix of minimalist functionality and rugged spontaneity. They favor well-worn leather jackets, durable sneakers, and unassuming watches that tell time in multiple time zones. Their wardrobe is built for movement, not for show.

In music, they lean toward surf rock, indie folk, or ambient electronic-anything that evokes a sense of wandering. Their bookshelf holds Kerouac, Didion, and Pico Iyer-writers who understand the poetry of transience. They prefer black coffee, bitter beer, and meals that can be eaten on the go.

Their home is sparse but meaningful: a few travel souvenirs, a well-used skateboard, a map with pins marking places they’ve been. They don’t accumulate possessions, but the ones they keep tell stories.

They work jobs that allow movement-freelancing, travel writing, consulting, anything that resists the 9-to-5 grind. If they do settle into a career, it must have an element of unpredictability. Routine suffocates them.

Weekends are for road trips, last-minute flights, or aimless city walks. They don’t plan; they follow impulse. Their ideal vacation is one where the itinerary is scribbled on a napkin and abandoned by noon.

Yet, this lifestyle has its costs. Stability eludes them. Financial security is precarious. They may romanticize their rootlessness, ignoring the loneliness that creeps in during quiet moments.

Philosophy & Values

They believe life is best lived in motion. Routine is the enemy; stagnation is death. Their philosophy is not one of reckless abandon, but of intentional discovery. They don’t run from something-they run toward something, even if they can’t always name it.

Freedom is their highest value, but not in the anarchic sense. They seek the freedom to choose, to change, to redefine themselves. They distrust dogma, whether political, religious, or social. Their morality is fluid, shaped by experience rather than doctrine.

Yet, this very fluidity can become their undoing. Their resistance to permanence makes deep commitments difficult. They may leave relationships when things get too comfortable, mistaking intimacy for confinement.

Relationships

They are magnetic in conversation-charming, engaging, full of stories. People are drawn to their energy, their refusal to be pinned down. But their relationships are often transient. They love intensely, but fleetingly.

Romantically, they are the one who leaves before dawn, who sends postcards from distant cities, who promises to return but never does-not out of malice, but because the road keeps calling. Their partners may feel like waypoints, not destinations.

Friendships are easier for them-less binding, more flexible. They have companions in every city, people who know them in fragments. Few see the whole picture.

Shadow

Their greatest strength-their love of freedom-is also their greatest flaw. They mistake commitment for captivity, depth for burden. They may grow restless in careers, relationships, even friendships, always chasing the next thrill, never allowing anything to mature.

They fear boredom more than failure. The idea of staying in one place, with one person, in one job, terrifies them-not because they disdain these things, but because they don’t trust themselves to be content.

In rare moments of self-awareness, they wonder: Am I running toward something, or just running?

Conclusion

They are neither hero nor vagabond, but something in between-a modern Odysseus who finds home in the journey itself. Long Board Min New York is their scent because it captures the essence of movement: the salt of the ocean, the grit of the city, the crispness of a new beginning.

They will never be the person who stays. But perhaps, in time, they will learn that some freedoms are found not in leaving, but in choosing to remain.