Annie’s family were the original inhabitants of the croft house in which we now make our perfumes. The croft house was built in the late 1700’s. Annie was born in the croft house during the late 1800’s and, when she grew up, helped to work the croft with her parents. At that time, the croft house had a thatched roof, a mud floor, no electricity and consisted of one room in which all the family lived. They gathered their water from a well and lived off the produce from the croft and their animals.
Annie never married and when Annie’s parents died, Annie lived on in the croft house on her own with her three dogs. She was well known in the locality for her fierce independence and her love of her animals. In our picture of Annie you may notice her stout boots and walking stick which she used when out tending to her flocks. Annie died peacefully in her cottage in the year of 1952. Her three dogs had to be humanely destroyed following her death as they could not be handled by anyone else.
The cottage had a tin roof and concrete floor installed in 1960, we had electricity and water installed in order to use the croft for our perfume production in 2002. We have always felt that the cottage has a warm and friendly feel to it, and that Annie loves the idea of our creating some of the worlds most beautiful fragrances from her house on the shores of wild Loch Ewe in the Scottish Highlands.
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