Botanical Fragrance House
About
Moss + Thorn is a botanical fragrance house creating a collection of fragrant curiosities gathered from the natural world.
Rooted in the belief that the natural world still has much to teach, the house looks to the past—not through nostalgia, but through curiosity. Enduring botanical traditions, forgotten materials, and slower ways of making inform a contemporary collection of botanical fragrance, aromatic artifacts, and modern apothecary goods that honor humanity's long relationship with scent, craft, and the living world.
For generations, botanicals have been gathered not only for their usefulness, but for their beauty, mystery, and fragrance. Flowers were pressed into herbariums, resins carried across continents, woods shaped into homes and keepsakes whose scent lingered for decades.
These materials were more than ingredients—they were part of humanity's enduring relationship with the natural world.
Moss + Thorn continues that tradition through a contemporary lens. Every fragrance and aromatic artifact begins with observation: the texture of bark, the architecture of a hornet's nest, the quiet permanence of stone, the perfume of a blossom at dusk. Each collection is an invitation to slow down, look more closely, and rediscover the extraordinary character of the botanical world.
Sarina Villareal Ehrgott
Artist + Formulator
Moss + Thorn was founded by artist and museum professional Sarina Villareal Ehrgott.
Years spent studying art, museums, and material culture cultivated a lasting fascination with the ways objects preserve memory, carry history, and deepen an understanding of the world around us. That same curiosity naturally extended to botanical fragrance, where every resin, flower, leaf, and wood tells its own story through scent.
Today, Moss + Thorn brings these worlds together through contemporary botanical fragrance informed by enduring traditions. Each collection reflects a quiet belief that the natural world is worthy of careful observation, thoughtful craftsmanship, and continual rediscovery.