Winter Aromatic Veils – Culinary Perfume Set
Two winter aromatic dusts shaped as culinary perfumes – one pale and sweet, one floral and resinous – held in air, light, and cold clarity.
 
Boreal Veil
Rosarium Borealis
 
This two-piece set brings together the Winter Aromatic Veils – a paired offering of culinary perfumes created for the cold months, when food and drink are asked to carry not only nourishment, but atmosphere.
 
These are not seasonings, salts, or spices. They are aromatic dusts, used sparingly at the table, shaped to move through air before settling briefly on warm surfaces. Each is applied as a final gesture – a veil rather than a layer – where scent and perception matter as much as taste.
 
The pair is intentionally contrasting. One is sweet, pale, and lifted – winter experienced as clarity, breath, and light. The other is floral, resinous, and precise – rose held in cold air, sharpened by forest. Together, they offer two distinct ways of meeting winter through aroma.
 
Boreal Veil
A sweet winter aromatic dust of cold citrus, green clarity, and northern air.
 
Boreal Veil is shaped around the sensory landscape of winter snow – pale citrus brightness held in frost, clean cold air, and resin carried lightly through northern woods. Sweetness here is translucent and restrained, lifted rather than comforting. Fresh Artemisia annua lends a green, silvery edge that sharpens and clarifies the blend, keeping it airy and clean. This is winter sweetness experienced as light and breath – cool, precise, and sparing. Used where aroma leads and sweetness follows.
 
Aromatic profile
Top – cold citrus, winter light
Heart – fresh Artemisia annua, green lift
Base – pale resins, northern air
Overall – sweet, clean, lifted
 
Flavour pairings
Warm milk or milk alternatives
Lightly sweetened drinks
Simple grains or porridges
Baked apples or pears
Milk-based desserts
White chocolate
 
Serving suggestions
Use sparingly as a finishing dust. Sprinkle just before serving, allowing residual warmth to release the aroma without muting its clarity. Avoid cooking or prolonged heat – this is a final aromatic gesture, not an ingredient.
 
Rosarium Borealis
A winter rose held in cold air – restrained floral clarity shaped by wild rose and juniper.
 
Rosarium Borealis is built from wild rose paired with juniper berries, creating a floral expression that is pale, lucid, and spacious. The rose is thinned by frost, its sweetness sharpened rather than softened. Juniper brings green resin, forest air, and a quiet bitterness that anchors the floral note without weight. This is not a lush or perfumed rose. It is floral clarity held in tension with northern woods – cool, composed, and precise. Used where floral lift and resin sweetness are desired, without heaviness.
 
Aromatic profile
Top – cool wild rose, frost-light floral air
Heart – juniper berry, green resin
Base – dry wood, clean bitterness
Overall – floral, restrained, spatial
 
Flavour pairings
Fresh curd or soft, unsalted dairy
Milk-based desserts and creams
White chocolate or pale chocolate
Baked apples or pears
Simple sweet grains or porridges
Warm milk or milk alternatives
Delicate pastries where aroma is allowed to rise
 
Serving suggestions
Use sparingly as a finishing dust. Rosarium Borealis is a sweet aromatic offering, intended to be applied at the table rather than used in cooking. Sprinkle lightly just before serving, allowing residual warmth to release the floral and resin notes without muting their clarity. A very small amount is sufficient – this is a veil of aroma rather than a flavouring. Avoid prolonged heat, baking, or stirring into dishes. This dust is meant to rest briefly on the surface, where scent and sweetness can be perceived together.
 
Storage
Store sealed in a cool, dark place away from heat and light.
Use dry utensils only to preserve aroma and texture.
 
Winter Hearth Soulfoods – Mother Tongue of the Cailleach Country
The Winter Soulfoods collection is an immersive body of work set in Cailleach country – the boglands of Béarra – approached as ecosystem, archive, threshold, and kitchen. It imagines what it might mean to work from within the Cailleach’s own domain, drawing flavour, nourishment, and craft from deep ground, slow water, turf fire, and time.
 
The bog is not treated as symbol or backdrop. It is a keeper of strata – layers of matter and memory held intact. A place where time is thickened rather than spent. A preservative ground where patience, restraint, and clarity are ways of staying in relationship with the land around you, and the land within you.
 
Within this terrain, food is ceremony and attention. The Winter Aromatic Veils belong to the cold register of the season – air, light, and distance – reminding us that not all winter nourishment is about warmth or weight. Some offerings are about breath, clarity, and the quiet power of restraint.
 
These soulfoods are acts of natural pace and continuity – ways of staying in relationship with place, season, and deep time. Crafted through hand, hearth, and long devotion, they carry the quiet authority of a path walked faithfully, day after day, in preparation for the dark.