Middleshade is a small perfumery on a working lavender farm in Kinross-shire.

The first lavender went into the ground in 2015 - a field that had previously grown arable cereals, a diversification project as much as anything. By 2017 we were distilling our own oil. The perfumery followed once we had more of it than we knew what to do with it.

Rory is a physicist (Oxford) and Marina is a plant geneticist (Manchester, then two years researching at ETH Zurich). Neither of them set out to make perfume. The farm came first, then the lavender, and the perfumery grew out of the harvest.

We are Scotland's only commercial lavender farm. Some of the scents lean heavily on what we grow - Scottish Lavender most obviously. Others use it more lightly, alongside ingredients we source from suppliers we have worked with for years.

Everything is blended and bottled by hand on the farm, in small batches, and shipped from Kinross-shire.