Journal

Most people who can sing the Skye Boat Song have never been to Skye. It is a lullaby in houses where nobody has seen the Cuillin. Pipe bands play it...

A record of one distillation run at Tarhill Farm this summer, from the cut to the morning after. Every one of our perfumes has something in it that was grown...

For most of the 20th century thousands went to the berries at Blairgowrie each summer. What it was, why it ended, and the river that links it to our perfume...

Oud is the scent of a tree defending itself. A great many perfumes sold under the name contain little or none of the natural material.

When we named this perfume, we took the line as tender. It isn't. "It's a' for the hiney he'll cherish the bee" comes from Robert Burns's song "My Tocher's the...

Usually the problem is not the rose. It is everything that has been put with it.

Tam o' Shanter explained: how Burns wrote it, what happens at Alloway Kirk, and what the poem smells like, from inn fire to churchyard.

Very little, as it turns out. Here is what you are smelling on a Scottish hill instead.

Gifts for People Who Love Scotland but Don't Live There There's a particular kind of longing that has no clean name in English. The Welsh call it hiraeth - a...