From Garden to Bottle
Our Process
Every Rosehip perfume is the product of patience, intention, and a deep reverence for the raw materials that the land provides. There are no shortcuts in botanical perfumery — only seasons, and the slow alchemy of time.
The Garden
Where every fragrance begins
Each morning, Delphine walks her cutting garden on Queen Street, selecting blooms at their peak. Confederate jasmine harvested before the dew dries. Tea olive blossoms gathered in autumn twilight. Carolina jessamine coaxed from the vine at the exact moment its honey-sweet scent reaches perfection.
The Harvest
Foraging the Lowcountry
Beyond the garden, the Lowcountry itself is Delphine’s apothecary. Sweetgrass from the barrier islands. Sea salt crystallized from tidal pools on Sullivan’s Island. Driftwood aged by the Atlantic. Wild roses from the hedgerows of Johns Island. Every ingredient has a provenance, a story, a season.
The Extraction
Capturing the essence
Using techniques learned in Grasse — enfleurage, steam distillation, cold expression — Delphine transforms raw botanicals into concentrated essences. Some methods take weeks. The rose absolute alone requires 10,000 petals for a single ounce. This is not efficiency; this is devotion.
The Composition
The art of blending
At her organ — the perfumer’s workstation of hundreds of essences arranged in a tiered arc — Delphine composes each fragrance. Top notes for the first impression. Heart notes for the story. Base notes for the memory. She works in silence, by intuition, often through the night.
The Maceration
Patience becomes perfume
The blended concentrate rests in dark glass vessels for 4 to 6 weeks, allowing the molecules to marry. Like wine aging in oak, this unhurried process deepens complexity, rounds sharp edges, and reveals hidden harmonies that fresh blending cannot achieve.
The Bottling
From hand to heart
Each bottle is hand-filled, hand-labeled, and hand-numbered. The glass is sourced from a small French verrerie. The labels are letterpress-printed on cotton paper. The wax seal bears the Rosehip monogram. Every bottle is a small ceremony, a transfer of care from maker to wearer.
Local Ingredients
The Lowcountry Palette
These are the botanical treasures that give Rosehip perfumes their distinctive character — ingredients you will not find in any commercial fragrance house.
Confederate Jasmine
Heady, sweet, intoxicating
SpringTea Olive
Apricot-like, delicate
AutumnSweetgrass
Warm, herbaceous, grounding
SummerCarolina Jessamine
Honey-sweet, golden
SpringWild Rose
Pure, dewy, ephemeral
SpringMagnolia
Creamy, citrus-tinged
SummerSea Salt Crystal
Mineral, crisp, oceanic
Year-roundLemon Verbena
Bright, green, lifting
Summer“Perfume is the most intense form of memory. I don't make fragrances — I make time capsules. Each bottle holds a place, a season, a feeling that would otherwise be lost to the wind.”