We bought a still before we bought a lab.
In 2019 our founder spent a season in the high desert, watching cactus fruit being pressed within hours of harvest. The hydrosol that came out was nothing like the rose water on shelves — greener, wetter, alive.
That first harvest became Rose Hydrating Dew. It also set the rule for everything since: source the raw material properly, then formulate around it instead of diluting it into a story.